TRUE URBAN SPIRIT

THE METROPOLITAN REGION
3.2
REGIONAL
CO-OPERATION SPACES
Together with the Federal Province
of Lower Austria as well as a wide
variety of different interest groups,
Vienna wants to define regional
co-operation spaces with massive
development potential and great
importance for the environs of
Vienna and the metropolitan region
with regard to location and green
space development or the mobility
system.
Definition of regional co-operation spaces in the context of a broad-based dialogue
process: a sub-region that should certainly be at the focus of this process is
the Simmering/Schwechat/Vienna International Airport area with its outstanding
importance for Vienna as a business hub and tourism destination and its potential
as a company location.
Definition of development goals: for jointly defined co-operation spaces, quality
and development goals as well as a roadmap for the concrete implementation of
measures and strategies should be formulated.
Co-operation towards the realisation of superordinate development goals in the
regional context can and should be advanced by viable processes and actors.
Examples include the Viennese model of target areas of urban development, the
procedures adopted by Lower Austrian municipalities for spatial development (e. g.
regional guiding plans) or international examples.
The co-operative and fine-tuned planning and development of locations for
industrial and commercial properties and retail facilities can and should be part and
parcel of this co-operation instrument (> 3.1 Vienna generats prosperity – a business,
science and research hub – Initiative: Co-operative business location development in the
urban region)
Project-based planning – development of a competition-based subsidy system to
provide incentives for the development of projects taking up regional planning ideas;
e. g. implementation in the form of a REGIONALE .
CITY-ENVIRONS
MOBILITY PARTNERSHIPS
Based on a jointly compiled regional
transport concept and in tandem
with urban development, Vienna
aims to establish mobility partnerships
along key traffic corridors in
the environs of the city. In addition
to VOR, Vienna wants to win over
the Federal Province of Lower Austria
and the municipalities affected
as partners.
Co-operative development (Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland) of a strategy for
the region as a whole to cover public transport in the metropolitan region (including
a comprehensive park-and-ride concept and long-distance cycling routes).
Co-operative definition of regions/sub-regions to implement mobility partnerships
– potentials for collaboration exist in particular along the S-Bahn axes, which
are of paramount importance for everyday commuter traffic and regarding which
Vienna and Lower Austria share great common interest in improving the intervals
and comfort of public transport.
Development of cross-border mobility concepts in the context of the partnerships;
a special focus is on the development of transboundary mobility concepts in
the catchment area of new (U2-North – aspern Vienna’s Urban Lakeside,
U1-South – Oberlaa) and existing Underground terminals. This especially concerns
the definition of common goals and responsibilities between Vienna, Lower Austria
and the neighbouring municipalities as well as service standards and the planning
and implementation of corresponding measures.
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