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that will be soon promoted in Luxembourg) and bike sharing areas (especially in
Luxembourg City) could be designed with charging stations that will be directly supplied
by solar energy harvesting technologies on rooftops. Even if managed by different
operators, all these services should appear to the user as being part of a single system,
with integrated payment service, coordinated information system, same graphics and
platform.
Avoid single-function interchange stations designed exclusively for transport use. They
should provide other services such as professional meeting facilities, parcel delivery
lockers, and grocery delivery. These services will contribute to make the intermodal
infrastructures a lively place and add value to the overall travel experience. A
multifunctional interchange should also ensure personal safety and security with
adapted surveillance.
Provide a high quality pedestrian and cycling infrastructure: walking and cycling are a
necessary complement of public transport. There is plenty of evidence that people are
more willing to walk or cycle, even over longer distances, if the environment is safe,
pleasant, direct and well-connected. 89
Development of ICT in order to realize informed travel, communicate the best travel
solutions in real time, facilitate the interchanges, promote the use of shared systems,
and increase the reliability of the system as a whole. As foreseen by the MoDu,
multimodal hubs ("pôles d'échanges") will be built througout the country to facilitate
the shift between the different modes of transportion (train, tram, bus, cycling, car
sharing, etc.) by offering real-time traffic information, modern and clean facilites and
additional services such as shops.
2.1.2 Implement multimodal last mile solutions.
It is difficult to act in a short time on the urban structure implementing a more balanced density
and land use for the city. With this in mind, it will be important to continue to implement a
flexible and modern transport system (last mile solution) able to increment the capillarity of the
public transport and bring the citizens near to their final destination.
This system can be realized through the implementation of personal transit (public transport
able to satisfy personal travel) that collects inhabitants of suburban and rural areas and
transports them to specific intermodal points that are well-connected with the economic center
89 There is ample consensus that quantity and length of pedestrian trips are very sensitive to the quality of the
pedestrian environment. See for example Jan Gehl: “Life Between Buildings: using public space” Island Press
2011; Jarrett Walker: “human transit” Island press 2011; http://humantransit.org/2011/04/basics-walkingdistance-to-transit.html;
Jeff Speck: “walkable city” North Point press 2013.
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