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Bautista Rodríguez, David. Ortuño Padilla, Armando.Fernández Aracil, Patricia.
Sánchez Galiano, Juan Carlos. Mompó Guerra, Antonio.

On the other hand, the model is centred on the route, on the pedestrians moving around the
streets, and it forgets the ones standing there. The model does not make any reference to urban
furniture, benches, squares or any other places where people could meet just for having a good
time.

Overall, TOD standard model is a complete and effective work tool. It provides quantitative
measures from objective parameters. These parameters are easy to be measured and indicate
the situation of the studied area in relation to essential indicators of urban mobility.

5. Conclusions and suggested actions to be taken in the studied area.

The conclusions obtained from the results of the study are:
Walk: to develop neighbourhoods that promote walking. This principle has 11 points out of 15,
it seems a good score. Getting into detail, the 3 points lost have in common that the car has
a predominant position in the street as opposite to pedestrians. It is clear that the pedestrian
network is insufficient. In short, nowadays the area around the station enhances the use of cars
instead of walking. The other point lost concerns visually active frontage, that is, the quantity
of shop and building windows on the front, providing security to the pedestrians.

Figure 5: Frontage of the high-speed rail station. Source: own photo.

Cycle: to give priority to non-motorised transport networks. This principle has 2 points out of 5.
The reason is that there is no cycle path. The majority of cycle routes are in the roadways and
share space with motor vehicles limited to 50 km/h, thus becoming non-secured spaces. The
reason is the same as in the previous point, the own car has a predominant position. The 2
points obtained come from the existence of the cycle parkings, but they are mainly outdoors,
including those in the high-speed rail station.

Figure 6 and 7: Cycle spaces in Plaza Seneca in the surroundings of the high-speed rail station. Source: own photos.

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