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Sustainable Mobility
A New Transportation System to Connect the City and the Port
Promoting the use of waterways, rail or other non-fossil-based modes of transport within the City Port territory for shipping goods.
How to increase the use of waterways aiding hinterland connections ?
Considerably before the execution of urban redevelopment projects involving the city and the port, it’s imperative to incorporate port access enhancements into the preexisting local urban mobility plans. This entails comprehensive strategies for the transportation of both individuals and goods via various transportation modes. Urban planners should possess knowledge about the prevailing construction regulations that pertain to shared roadways accommodating both port and urban transport, including factors like road width and traffic circle dimensions. Urban planners and port authorities of Zuid Holland noticed trucks created congestion in highways, such as A15, as they were coming from ports from the delta of the Rhine. This prompted the creation of the Container Transferium, which helped fix this problem by organizing containers at the end of the Rhine to be transported through vessels using the river.
This good practice also includes objective 2.3 (Committing the City Port territory to achieving a low carbon, low resources society, through the transformation of industrial production, and the production and management of carbon-neutral, renewable energies) of the AIVP’s 2030 Agenda.
The Alblasserdam BCTN Container Transferium was officially opened on 28 May 2015. The project aimed to optimise links with the Maasvlakte terminal containers, which could previously only be reached by truck on the already congested A15 motorway. It was hoped that the number of trucks using the A15 could be cut by about 180,000 a year, with daily transfers to river routes. In 2017, over 750 containers per week passed through the Alblasserdam interior terminal. In 2021 it was reported that about 100.000 units had passed through the corridor within the year. In 2023, CEO Joop Mijland estimated that the locations of BCTN transported about 500.000 containers a year. The new solution allows for faster, cleaner transport, thanks to the use of river routes and also because the facilities themselves use green technologies, such as electric cranes, cold ironing, sustainable lighting, and noise mitigation measures. The project was financed in part by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment and by the Province of South Holland.
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