Goal 2 | Excellent Connectivity and Sustainable Mobility
Our metropolitan areas shall be well connected through actions which will seek to deliver connectivity:
• Internationally through port and airport assets, Sustainable Freight and TEN-T Corridors; • For high quality, high speed digital infrastructure and optimisation of smart technology through Digital Strategies; • Inter-regionally through efficient rail, road, bus networks and services; • Intra-regionally, through multi modal transport options and services to access the metropolitan area and city centre efficiently; • To encourage the development of sustainable modes of transport to serve the smaller towns, villages and rural areas; • Within the metropolitan area, through an integrated network of high capacity public transport corridors and services, pedestrian routes and cycling corridors; • Within our urban neighbourhoods and employment locations to achieve high quality standards of public
realm, public transport facilities, public transport interchange facilities, appropriate management of private transport and car parking, pedestrian and cycling infrastructure and to promote a significant transition from private car usage to healthier and sustainable modes of travel where people and jobs are concentrated; • To achieve successful integration between land use and transport planning, achieving sustainable higher densities and appropriate uses at nodes serviced by public transport networks; • To achieve efficient mobility, with close alignment between home and work locations, ease of travel on sustainable transport modes, efficient and sustainable movement of freight and logistics, guaranteed journey times for inter-city and inter-regional travel.
Goal 3 | Economic Engines Driving Regional Enterprise Growth
Our metropolitan areas will have a competitive international edge through actions which support:
• Smart specialisation, strengthening and evolving existing economic sectors and clusters, supporting partnerships across academia and research centres, public bodies, business sector and local communities; • Embracing technology change, transitioning with resilience and innovation towards a smart technology future in how we live and work sustainably;
• Offer excellent standards of infrastructure services and property assets for all scales of enterprise, from start-ups to FDI; • Quality of life offer, with attractive options for housing in the right locations, community infrastructure and recreation options easily accessible from locations of work.
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