21st Century (2000–present)

Budapest Balázs Mór Plan

2014 · Hungary · Western & Central Europe · Transit-oriented urbanism and corridor planning · Planned by BKK Centre for Budapest Transport
Long-term fixed-rail transport development plan for Budapest from the Balázs Mór Plan, showing planned metro, tram and suburban railway extensions.
Long-term fixed-rail transport development plan for Budapest from the Balázs Mór Plan, showing planned metro, tram and suburban railway extensions. · © BKK Centre for Budapest Transport / Municipality of Budapest — used with credit · BKK Centre for Budapest Transport / Municipality of Budapest, Balázs Mór Plan – Budapest Transport Development Strategy 2014–2030 (English edition), p. 38

Core idea

Sustainable transport strategy

Why it matters

Coherent mobility plan for a historic city

Description

The Balázs Mór Plan, adopted in 2014 by BKK, the Centre for Budapest Transport, was Budapest's first integrated sustainable urban mobility plan, named after the nineteenth-century pioneer of the city's tramways. It set a strategy to 2030 for public transport development, cycling and walking improvements, traffic management and institutional reform, prioritising the renewal of the tram and suburban rail networks over road capacity expansion. It covers the whole capital and its functional region.

Significance

The plan marked Hungary's adoption of the EU sustainable urban mobility planning model, translating Western European SUMP methodology into a large post-socialist metropolis with an extensive but ageing transit inheritance. It is significant for reframing Budapest's transport politics around integration and demand management, and became a benchmark for mobility planning in Central and Eastern Europe.

What shaped it

Sources

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