Amsterdam: Smart Mobility Hub

The Smart Mobility Hub (SMH) is a sustainable hub for mobility, sports and energy and is part of the area development of 'De Nieuwe Kern', located between Duivendrecht station, the Johan Cruijff Arena, the A2 and the Amstel Business Park. A new urban district will be developed here in the coming years with space for homes, a city park, companies, catering and offices.

With the increasing densification of the city and the ambitions in the areas of mobility, sustainability, quality of life and health, the scarce space will have to be used more intelligently. In combination with the major challenge for housing, facilities with a large claim to space are becoming increasingly difficult to integrate, while it is precisely these facilities that are the solution for maintaining and improving a sustainable, accessible, liveable, complete, inclusive and healthy city. As a growing city, this therefore requires a different way of spatial planning, in which the land will be used multiple times, clustered and flexibly for different functions.

Importance of the project for mobility

With the SMH, the Municipality of Amsterdam anticipates on the aforementioned task and thus provides space for a growing city, but also contributes to a sustainable, accessible, liveable, complete, inclusive and healthy city. The SMH will cluster various existing parking and mobility facilities in one building, creating space for area development, among other things. In addition, the mobility hub will also provide space for new urban mobility challenges that are difficult or impossible to solve in themselves or at high costs.

The task of the SMH is to create space for the De Nieuwe Kern area development, to offer a future-proof mobility facility, to improve and expand the Strandvliet sports park and to increase the quality of life and quality of stay in the area.

Mobility objectives

• Limited replacement parking capacity for events: Guarantee, improve and make at least 2,000 places of replacement parking capacity for events in De Nieuwe Kern and ArenAPoort, so that space is created for the De Nieuwe Kern and De Nieuwe Toekomst area development by 2025 at the latest. The limited parking capacity compared to the current situation creates scarcity, with the aim of a modality shift towards public transport and thus reducing the traffic load of event traffic;
• Preventing unnecessary new parking facilities due to double use: Double use of parking capacity for Park+Ride and Bike, offices and visitors. Concentrating and clustering a limited parking offer (cf. mobility program Zuidoost) for office use in the surroundings of De Nieuwe Kern and ArenAPoort (in line with the ambitions of the Southeast mobility program 'smarter use'), so that the increase in (extra) separate parking garages at new developments in the areas inhibited;
• Multimodal hub for efficient, sustainable and clean mobility: Creating a multimodal hub for coach traffic, mobility as a service (e.g. by offering shared bicycles and shared scooters), additional public transport and city logistics for the immediate vicinity, including electric (fast -) charging facilities. The node will be integrated as much as possible with the metro network and the main car and bicycle network of Amsterdam.

Published on 29 July 2022. Note: This opportunity refers to contract notice "2022/S 135-381682" on TED. The original description is published in Dutch.