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Expert group 4: Connecting Goods and People
The expert group will focus on the interrelations
between large river basins and the transport of
goods and people, i.e. on the role of a river as an
infrastructure, separating barrier, origin and
destination of trips and as an ecological system.
These includes the different interests that
stakeholders may have in the development of a river
basin, deriving partly from conflicting claims and
requirements, for instance, land use,
infrastructures, economic development, tourism. It
will also considerer various procedures and
instruments available for balancing those relations,
such as consultation, incentives, regulations.
Consequently, the main stakeholder groups differ
from the project’s other expert groups. The group
will concentrate on the following discussion topics:
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How could water-borne transport be fully
integrated into a sustainable inter-modal freight
transport system?
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What requirements should be satisfied in order
to establish inter-modal public transport networks
and services across and along the river?
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What impacts will follow the increase of
leisure mobility and tourism in the river basin
and how can they be managed sustainably
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How can the negative impacts of transport on
the quality of air, water and soil in the river
basin be reduced
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