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36 | Port of Hamburg Magazine | March 2020
Digital strategy for Hamburg
The Senate has agreed on comprehensive guidelines on digital strategy for the coming years. With a strategy that takes into account all areas of life in the community, Hamburg is systematically pursuing the path embarked on with the ‘A Digital City Strategy’ back in 2015. In recent years, Hamburg has made considerable advances as a digital city. That has involved such topics as mobility, culture, town planning, the port, logistics and local government, as well as creating structures facilitating progress on digitalization throughout
the city.
The ‘Digital Strategy for Hamburg’ defines areas for action on digitalization and lists specific projects. For instance, this strategy indicated how digital in- frastructures and platforms are being further developed and how responsible treatment of data must look. In addition, a large number of plans and projects are presented, for which government agencies and publicly owned compa- nies take responsibility.
A digital strategy for Hamburg online: https://static.hamburg.de/fhh/epaper/digitalstrategie/
Rail federations sign charter on
DAC – Digital Automatic Coupling
Digital Automatic Coupling is essential for successful rail freight traffic. The six leading trade associations in the rail freight sector are convinced of that. Today they presented the DAC Charter at the Tenth VPI Symposium in Hamburg. They called on politicians and the sector to join forces and to set in motion the key technology for an efficient Rail 4.0 throughout Europe. Among the first signatories for the charter initiated by the VPI were Pro-Rail Alliance - Allianz pro Schiene, NEE, VDB, VDV and UIP. Companies and institu- tions wishing to back the moves are invited to subscribe to the charter.
The DAC charter describes three steps that these associations regard as needing to be implemented now for the successful launch of DAC. A boost for DAC research; a Europe- an timetable for fleet conversions; ensuring finance for the change process. Experts put the cost of equipping locomotives and freight cars throughout Europe with the new coupling technology at between six and ten billion euros.
© VPI
from left: Gilles Peterhans (International Union of Wagonkeepers), Neele Wesseln (NEE) Dirk Flege (Allianz pro Schiene), Malte Lawrenz (VPI), Michael Sikorski (VDV)
© Senatskanzlei