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Renewed Governance
Promote dialogue between the City and the Port within a renewed governance framework.
Developing collaborative approaches, drawing on scientific and technologic knowledge from the scientific community and civil society to support decision making.
How can authorities redesign their strategies to effectively influence skipper behaviour and improve shared waterway safety?
Recreational skippers do not always follow the safe and official routes. Instead, they take unlawful and unsafe shortcuts. This shows that skippers are not influenced by conventional communication ways. To influence recreational skippers who either do not know or at least do not follow the maritime rules, Rijkswaterstaat, in the framework of the Connected River project, experimented with unconventional methods to influence the skipper’s behaviour. These methods include hanging seasonal banners with clear visuals proven to be most effective.
This good practice also includes objective 2.1 (Promoting dialogue and cooperation between socio-economic stakeholders to identify potential synergies and encourage better management of natural resources) of the AIVP’s Agenda 2030.
The Connected River project is a EU-funded project that aims to boost the capacities of multi-stakeholder ecosystems to deliver services that guarantee the safety, accessibility, and livability of waterways & waterfronts in the North Sea Region. One of the experimentations of the project takes place on the river IJ. The main problem is that recreational skippers travelling on the IJ, often do not take the official route, creating a hazardous environment. To address this issue, Rijkswaterstaat installed seasonal banners with clear visuals to attract attention and change this behaviour. The banners are a low-cost way to nudge hard-to-reach recreational skippers to take the right route. By placing them just before a decision point on the water, they have the most impact.
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