Amsterdam Tactisch OV-netwerk

Overview

Amsterdam keeps growing, and its streets are filling up: cycling, walking, greenery and public transport all compete for the same scarce space. With the municipality, Vervoerregio Amsterdam and GVB, we built a tactical perspective for the public transport network towards 2035.

At its core sits a new way of prioritising. The A-net absorbs the largest growth and gets priority in the street, the B-net balances transit against other claims on space, and the C-net stays fine-grained and asks little extra room. Six principles put the social function of public transport first and steer travel towards Nieuw-West, Noord and Zuidoost. The perspective feeds Amsterdam’s Beleidskader Verkeersnetten and the development agenda with VRA and GVB.

My role

I was the right hand of the project leader and ran parts of the project under my own lead. My main piece: translating the research into the map series that shows Amsterdam’s mobility structure and the A-, B- and C-net, the images the whole perspective now hangs on.

The project in images

The A-, B- and C-net together: Amsterdam's future public transport structure.

The A-net absorbs the largest growth and gets priority in public space.

The B-net seeks balance with the other users of the street.

The C-net stays fine-grained and asks little extra room.

The social task is the foundation: every network choice weighs the space transit takes against the space it frees up.

Bottleneck map of the current network, the starting point of the analysis.

Flowchart linking the perspective's ambitions to Amsterdam's citywide goals and boundaries.

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