1 EDS – European Danube Strategy Szentendre intermodal centre European Danube Strategy name of the project Szentendre intermodal centre responsible/country Szentendre/Hungary area Danube bank in the inner city of Szentendre antecedent, The gate of the Szentendre Region is the terminal of HÉV (suburban train) reasonableness, and its surrounding. It ensures connection with: purpose of the project -railway suburban train north-south (Szentendre – Budapest, Batthány square) -Bus lanes to Esztergom, Váci ferry, Visergrád, Dunabogdány, Leányfalu, Pilismarót, Pilisszentlászló, Skanzen, Szentendrei island (Kisoroszi, Pócsmegyer, Szigetmonostor), Budapest – Újpest, Budapest- Békásmegyer -water transport on Danube: there are two ship stations and a yacht dock -EuroVelo bicycle road -the development plans of traffic of Szentendre includes the planning west exonerating road, what will also help the supply of innovatively developing Skanzen -in case of tunnel connection it can give an escape road for Szentendre, and with a bridge it can make a connection to the Szentendre island - leading the main road 11 through Szentendre across a tunnel The terminal of HÉV is the transferring spot for residents of Danube band and Pilis mountains, even so its condition does not satisfy either travellers or the traffic professional expectations. Antecedent: -developing plans are ready for the North-South Railway, the licensing plans of developing stations and body of railroad of Budapest- Szentendre lane are ready, as well as the developing plans of information system -in agglomeration the water traffic is a competitive mode of transport, a detailed plan of project developing infrastructure and services is done by Mahart Passnave for lane Szentendre-Budapest-Százhalombatta -EuroVelo bicycle road got ready in 2007 by Danube, information system development in 2009 -appointing the place of P+R parking lot (parking lot of Kaisers’ and Rózsakert) -extension of P+R parking lot at Kaisers’ with 53 places in 2010 -establishing Skanzen bus terminal in P+R parking lot Rózsakert in 2010 -commercial development in the region: Pannon Corso shopping centre – licensing plans in 2010 Aim: Improving the traffic of Danube region, closing up the sustainable mobility of region, keeping residents on spot, improving traffic connections, helping commercial connections 2 EDS – European Danube Strategy Szentendre intermodal centre Reasonableness: The terminal of HÉV is the transferring spot for residents of Danube band and Pilis mountains. About 27.000 people of all 78.000 inhabitants of the region shuttles day by day to the capital. Added to this usage, while the region attracts many tourists, comes the traffic induced by tourists. More and more shuttlers go by car, making huge stress on environment meanwhile the main road 11 comes unusable during rush-hours. Based on these tendencies and on counting the traffic, we can already see that the terminals of HÉV and Volanbus have tight capacity and pretty low quality of services. The solution is in all-round development, the accessibility of the region can be increased by raising the quality of traffic services. Traffic dates now: Volanbus: 16-32 thousand person / day BKV-HÉV: 13-15 thousand person /day Automobile traffic on main road 11. 8-10 thousand car/day/way liabilities Main points of equal opportunities (law, other) - Any kind of discrimination based on race, colour, age, gender, national origin, religion, mental or physical disability, sexual is prohibited and the positive act is expected - creating and strengthening family-friend working places - Reduction of differences of opportunities based on gender - Progress of accessibility - Improving the quality of life and labour market chances of people living with deficiency - Improving the quality of life and labour market chances of Romany - Improving the quality of life and labour market chances of other underprivileged groups Main points of sustainable development The sustainable development “aims the preservation and improvement of people’s quality of life. Quality of life includes not only material prosperity, but also the quality of environment, the success of democratic rights, getting to natural resources as well as to services and institutions provided by society, physical and mental health, spear time and safety.” (National Strategy on Sustainable Development). Basis of sustainable society: o social justice o improvement of quality of life o sustainable usage of natural resources o preserving quality of environment - Management and planning with environmental awareness -Execution and maintenance in a way sustainability common interest of -qualitative development of traffic infrastructure and vehicles countries by the -developing connections of bicycle road by Danube Danube -forming new EU road junctions -thanks to qualitative development, more and more people puts down 3 EDS – European Danube Strategy Szentendre intermodal centre car and uses public transport ca. 150 person/year concerned by the -thanks to qualitative development, more and more people puts down project (target groups, car and uses public transport ca. 150 person/year grantees, collaborative) -inhabitants of Szentendre and its agglomeration area – ca.90.000 people -tourists coming to Szentendre and the Danube Band - ca. 3.000 person / day -inhabitants using the way daily – ca. 1.000 person / day -tourists from EU member countries content of the project -improving traffic conditions, modern, traveller-friend waiting rooms, renewing service rooms, building up information system -P+R parking lots (improving traffic, decreasing air pollution, keeping residents) -extension of capacity for bike-depos, location of lockup bike-depos (about 50 pc) -regional market, local ware (economic competitiveness, food production, supply, safety, - local work, strengthening countryside) -regional health care centre -green parks, development of parks and revitalization of the surrounding of HÉV terminal visions/effects/results Executing the project, boot-tourism and bike-tourism will rise again, what makes us get closer to our development aims: “Natural-region” and “Culture park”. Higher number of visitors will induce establishing of new accommodation supply and services built on historic, cultural, architectural and natural facilities of the region. This project improves the public transport opportunities of the region and supplying information, so we expect visitors coming to us who could not access the city till now. In the development conception of Central Hungary tourism is a central question. The project fulfilled in Szentendre Region will be a model impacting every touristic development in Central Hungary, experiences of the project will be used in decisions of similar investments. We expect the tourism to freshen economy and labour market. Improving public transport we expect the air pollution to decrease. necessary cost of the project time of execution 2-7 years preparedness of the Intermodal conception. project Date: 30-03-2010 Made by: Municipality of city Szentendre …………………………………….. …………………………………………… Ildikó, dr. Molnár Ferenc, dr. Dietz town clerk mayor .