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Placing dryports : port regionalization as a planning challenge ; the case of Hamburg, Germany, and the Süderelbe
Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2011-09-08
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Institut
Volume
33
Issue
1
Start Page
42
End Page
50
Citation
Research in Transportation Economics 33 (1): 42-50 (2011)
Publisher DOI
Scopus ID
Publisher
Elsevier
This paper emphasizes dryports in the context of port regionalization. It specifically deals with dryports as a challenge for planning, policy and metropolitan governance in the vicinity of seaports. The starting point is the ongoing spatial shift of terminals, distribution centres and port related developments towards the hinterland of mainports and the associated planning conflicts, raising negative impacts such as congestion, land consumption, land use conflicts and neighbourhood conflicts. The paper discusses these challenges against the empirical case of the Süderelbe-region in the Southern hinterland of the port of Hamburg, Germany. It focuses on the often neglected yet highly controversial issue of land use and related traffic flows. Further it reveals how these conflicts are being managed at the regional level. The main contention of the paper is that port regionalization triggers substantial planning conflicts different from those that are known from core port areas, due to the associated demand for land and infrastructure and also as a result of the often poorly developed institutional framework to solve these problems.
Subjects
Dryports
Governance and planning
Hinterland logistics
Land use conflicts
Port regionalization
DDC Class
330: Wirtschaft
380: Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr