The second Urban Nodes Platform event: Moving people and the economy across the EU and in cities
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Eurocities and the City of Antwerp invite you to join the second Urban Nodes Platform event, which is planned to take place in Antwerp, Belgium on 13 November 2024. Under the Moving people and the economy across the EU & in cities theme, the event will focus on various aspects pertaining to the role of urban nodes in TEN-T, with a specific focus on urban nodes governance and the funding of transport investments in urban nodes. As the revised TEN-T regulation was already adopted and recently published, the discussion will shift towards implementation aspects, the needs of urban nodes to be able to answer to the specific requirements, their investment needs, and how those can be reflected in the future Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for Transport funding instrument.
Aims and themes
Europe is a widely urbanised territory, featuring a diverse array of cities that are essential centres of economic and social activity. By their very nature and function, urban nodes, which comprise cities and their functional areas, are the starting point or the final destiÂnation for passengers and freight moving on the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). At the same time, they constitute the space where different levels of transport networks converge and points of transfer between different transport modes. As primary connection points, urban nodes are crucial elements of the TEN-T. The 2024 revised TEN-T regulation acknowledges this fact by reinforcing the role of urban nodes within the TEN-T, which involves expanding the list of urban nodes to 431 across EU countries and setting up new functional requirements for the identified nodes.
The Urban Nodes Platform was set up as part of the SCALE-UP project. The main aim of the platform is to engage urban nodes in TEN-T knowledge exchanges and policy dialogues. Under the Urban Nodes Platform umbrella, various meetings and webinars have been organised to foster the exchange of knowledge and good practices, as well as to collect feedback related to the urban nodes and TEN-T corridors. The various activities bring together urban nodes representatives, national administrations, EU policy makers, TEN-T corridor coordinators, transport operators, relevant European networks, researchers and academics. All relevant stakeholders are invited to register and attend the event.
Transversal themes to be addressed across the various sessions include:
- Urban nodes governance and the role of urban nodes in TEN-T governance
- Investment needs and financial resources for urban nodes
- Cities’ priorities and how they are reflected in their role as TEN-T urban nodes
- Capacity building and support programmes for urban nodes
- Innovative measures and planning concepts for bringing together long-distance transport and urban mobility.
Registration
All relevant stakeholders are invited to register and attend the event.
More information about the programme and registration can be found on the event page.
Author: Friederike Kühl
