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Coping with a Growing Mobility Demand in a Growing City: Hamburg as Pilot Region for Electric Mobility
Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2013-09-26
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Institut
TORE-URI
First published in
Start Page
283
End Page
306
Citation
Coping with a Growing Mobility Demand in a Growing City: Hamburg as Pilot Region for Electric Mobility. In: Evolutionary Paths Towards the Mobility Patterns of the Future pp 283-306
Publisher DOI
Publisher
Springer
Hamburg, Germany’s second largest city and economic centre of Northern Germany, features a high level of cargo handling and port-originated surface transport leading to the respective burden for air quality. Both demographic growth as well as common changes in age structure increase and change the associated mobility needs. The resulting demand for new mobility systems, the vicinity to large offshore wind power sources as well as existing technology clusters constitute the ideal test bed for electric transport applications combined with innovative mobility solutions to cope with these challenges. The city was thus selected as a pilot region for the demonstration and market introduction of electric mobility systems from the German federal government, which provides a total of 500 million euros from the Second Economic Stimulus Package to fund the development and commercialization of electric mobility in eight selected German regions. Between 2009 and 2011 players from academia, industry and local authorities were co-operating closely in projects in order to collect real-life data and hands-on experience with the technology, promote the development of infrastructure and to identify links and barriers to the widespread take-up of electric mobility.
DDC Class
600: Technik