Applying Accessibility Tools to Address Urban and Transport Planning. The case of the Eurocity of Valenca-Tui and the Euroregion of Galicia-Norte de Portugal.

The book presents the outcomes of the COST Action TU1002 “Accessibility Instruments for Planning
Practice in Europe” Junior Researchers Network activities, focused on the Eurocity recently created by the
cities of Valença (PT) and Tui (ES), and more in general on the the Euroregion of Galicia-Norte de Portugal.
The main scientific achievements of the book were:
 to address accessibility planning in this new Eurocity, taking into account the institutional and
operational aspects of planning of both municipalities and of both planning systems; the local and
the regional levels of trans-border interactions;
 to apply the concepts of one or more accessibility tools in use in the COST Action to address one or
more planning problems that are in the current planning agenda of the Eurocity and of the
Euroregion:
o local accessibility to the health care system;
o local accessibility to the cultural and sports facilities network;
o local transit accessibility;
o regional/ transnational accessibility;
 to plan the application of the methodologies developed and tested in the COST Action in this transborder,
multi-national planning context.