Stations & Real Estate
Stations are the first connection point of commuters with the public transport system. Amenities and services for commuters have to give satisfaction to the users, for who a station today is much more than just a shelter and waiting area. Commuters will be satisfied by both the transport services as the surrounding services in stations.
Where it is the first connection point of commuters, at present stations has to attract even more visits from non-commuters, considering stations as a social gathering place and a kind of marketplace, where they want to find multiple goods and services to purchase grouped in one single area, easy to access by multiple transport modes.
To days services are far beyond the newspaper and sandwich kiosks, but should offer consumer goods, financial services, health care, restaurants, leisure and car rentals.
As stations are locations where a lot of people arrive and leave again, it is the ideal place to (re)develop the city, either next to the stations, either on top of it.
Railway stations have been developed in the past at the extremities of the cities, with a lot of land dedicated to the rail activities. Whereas the cities have grown, and surrounded these railway areas, this dedicated land has often lost the rail functions, and is mostly better fit for city redevelopments.
The development of this real estate is an additional source of financing transport infrastructure development besides the operating revenues and the state subventions.
TransurbTechnirail, together with its engineers and architects of special departments and branch companies of the Belgian railways group, or with independent national and international architects, can work out the redevelopment of stations and assets into new situations, benefiting to all stakeholders such as transport companies, commuters, the state budget and the neighborhood.
Stations are the first connection point of commuters with the public transport system. Amenities and services for commuters have to give satisfaction to the users, for who a station today is much more than just a shelter and waiting area. Commuters will be satisfied by both the transport services as the surrounding services in stations.
Where it is the first connection point of commuters, at present stations has to attract even more visits from non-commuters, considering stations as a social gathering place and a kind of marketplace, where they want to find multiple goods and services to purchase grouped in one single area, easy to access by multiple transport modes.
To days services are far beyond the newspaper and sandwich kiosks, but should offer consumer goods, financial services, health care, restaurants, leisure and car rentals.
As stations are locations where a lot of people arrive and leave again, it is the ideal place to (re)develop the city, either next to the stations, either on top of it.
Railway stations have been developed in the past at the extremities of the cities, with a lot of land dedicated to the rail activities. Whereas the cities have grown, and surrounded these railway areas, this dedicated land has often lost the rail functions, and is mostly better fit for city redevelopments.
The development of this real estate is an additional source of financing transport infrastructure development besides the operating revenues and the state subventions.
TransurbTechnirail, together with its engineers and architects of special departments and branch companies of the Belgian railways group, or with independent national and international architects, can work out the redevelopment of stations and assets into new situations, benefiting to all stakeholders such as transport companies, commuters, the state budget and the neighborhood.
