the study led to a broader understanding of the project instead it recommended that it include the longterm multimodal functioning of the mobility network the ringway carries of local traffic and a relatively small shift to the local network or other modalities could solve the congestion at the national highway system near utrecht the investment climate of the eastern part of utrecht including the campus and the connectivity between utrecht and the surrounding rural landscape this favoured a shift from a defensive discussion about the highway project into an opportunity and qualitydriven discussion in which infrastructure was only one element spatialeconomic development models for the university campus together with the a highway and redevelopment of the adjacent rijnsweerd business park