Results: Policy position paper
AVATAR project partners Logistics Initiative Hamburg and POM Oost-Vlaanderen have created a Policy Position Paper. Key policy-related findings of the AVATAR project have been summarized.In the AVATAR Policy Position Paper, 8 key issues are included that governance actors need to address in particular to advance city freight distribution via waterways and highly autonomous inland navigation.
Read more about the following 8 topics:
1. Economic viability of urban freight distribution solutions on waterways are highly dependent on municipal and regional transport policy;
2. See the big picture with regard to socio-economic and environmental benefits vs. economic viability;
3. Infrastructure needs to be in shape;
4. Autonomous (inland) shipping needs a legal framework;
5. Liability frameworks need to be revised for autnomous (inland) shipping;
6. Pilots, pilots, pilots;
7. Leading by example - Cities need to get active with their own use cases;
8. Bureaucracy and fragmented responsibilities prevent the implementation of innovative solutions.
Feedback is welcome to Thomas Brauner (tb@hamburg-logistik.net) and Tom Pauwels (tom.pauwels@pomov.be).
