EU Best Practice, Hannover, Germany
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This document provides information about best practices in Hannover, Germany related to transportation, waste management, energy, air quality, and climate: - Hannover has a fantastic public transportation network of light rail, bus, and subway lines that residents are encouraged to use over driving due to available bike paths, pedestrian walkways, and multi-day tickets. - Waste management is a regional responsibility that has increased recycling and composting while decreasing waste volumes. Over 30% less waste is produced in the Kronsberg neighborhood compared to the city average. - Energy initiatives include utilizing wind and solar power, as well as energy efficiency programs for new buildings. - Hannover has very good air quality management
EU Best Practice, Hannover, Germany
- 1. EU BEST PRACTICE – HANNOVER, KRONSBERG, GERMANY WAN SYAFUDIN PUTRA
- 2. INTRODUCTION STATE: Lower Saxony DISTRICT: Hannover (Hanover) SUBDIVISION: 13 District COORDINATES: 52°22’N, 9°43’E LORD MAYOR: Stefan Schostok TIME ZONE: CET/CEST (UTC +1/+2) CITY AREA: 204.01 sq km (78.77 sq mi) ELEVATION: 55 m (180 ft) above sea level POPULATION (based on 2012): 509 485 person DENSITY: 2 500 person / sq km
- 3. LANDSCAPE Hanover has large green areas, with forests and big parks. The landscape is mostly flat, with the river Leine going through the city. The lake Masch (Maschsee) is rather spectacular, considering its size as a man-made object.
- 4. HISTORY Hanover is not a typical European city. The city was one of the hardest hit during World War II. This area is surrounded by grey 1950's buildings that give a somewhat heavy atmosphere to the streets. However, there still are several residential neighborhoods consisting of late-19th-century housing stock with often elaborate historicist (Victorian) and Jugendstil (Art Noveau) decorations just outside the downtown area, such as Oststadt, List or Linden.
- 5. TRANSPORTATION NETWORK Hanover has a fantastic network of public transportation, so it's best to just park your car and ride. If you plan to make more than two trips by tram, bus, or subway, a day ticket is your best bet, buying you unlimited travel on the public transport system. The public transportation adopts an honor system for tickets, but they do have ticket inspections once in a while (also late at nights and early mornings). The fine is quite high, so make sure you have a ticket all the time.
- 6. Bike paths are provided in almost every street that runs through the city. There is no law on using a helmet, but make sure that the bike has both front and rear lights if don't want to get stopped by the police (Fine: €10). Pedestrian paths are also provided along every street and there is also a pedestrian area in front of Central Station to Kröpcke. It is possible to take bike on the tram or bus for free on M-F 8:30AM-3PM and after 7PM. No time restrictions on weekends.
- 7. THE HANNOVER STADTBAHN Stadtbahn (light rail) system in the city of Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. Opened on 29 September 1975 Replacing the city's tramway network over the course of the following 25 years.. The Hanover Stadtbahn system consists of 12 main lines, serving 196 stations, and operating on 121 kilometres (75 mi) of route The system is run by üstra, which was originally an abbreviation for Überlandwerke und Straßenbahnen Hannover AG. As of 2007, it transported 125 million passengers per year.
- 8. S-BAHN RAILWAY The Hannover S-Bahn is an S-Bahn network operated by DB Regio in the area of Hannover. It went operational shortly before Expo 2000 and is focused on the Hanover region, and also connects with adjacent districts and into the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The S-Bahn is an evolution of a suburban railway. The S-Bahn has seven lines in Hanover. It is distinguished from the Hannover Stadtbahn, which emerged from the Hannover tram network.
- 9. KRÖPCKE Kröpcke is a large pedestrian area in the heart of Hanover. It is Hanover's major shopping spot, home to the Opera house and has lots of places to eat. The main station in the Hanover Stadtbahn network, is also located here. All Stadtbahn lines except the 10 and 17, call at the station and it is the main interchange point for the network. It has six platforms in total on three lines that cross each other in independent tunnels.
- 10. Kröpcke is the central place of the city of Hanover in Germany. Situated at the crossroads of Georgstraße, Karmarschstraße, Bahnhofstraße and Rathenaustraße. One of its notable features is the Kröpcke clock, which is a 1977 replica of an 1885 clock that was scrapped after World War II.
- 11. CLIMATE Hannover has a central European location on the north-west European plain in Lower Saxony. The climate is classified as coastal with warm summers with the hottest month exceeding 22°C. The lowland open location with exposure to winds from north, east and west leads to relatively high wind speeds averaging 3.3–3.4 m/s (wind speed index 3).
- 12. The location and wind speed analysis, and the resultant average dispersion index (Class 3), suggest that the risk of poor air quality will be related to specific periods of wind-still rather than likely to occur under average conditions. A further factor reducing risk is the very low population density of 2,520 inhabitants per km2. Climatic data indicate a medium vulnerability to both winter and summer smog. The former is due to the winter occurrence of periods when a high pressure system above Europe persists for several days.
- 13. AIR QUALITY Hannover scored a total of 87.0 points for the air quality monitoring capabilities index. It indicates a very complete approach to air quality management in the city with few deficiencies in any section of the index. Hannover collects all appropriate air quality data and applies strict quality control measures. A range of sites allows a comparison of spatial distribution of pollutants, and there are good data on all major pollutant compounds going back at least five years, allowing trends to be evaluated.
- 14. ENERGY Wind energy, solar which is 2 cogeneration plants used for heating needs of the district. Energy efficiency measures were foreseen concerning construction of new buildings, training courses on low energy buildings were organized for constructors. Low energy light bulbs were subsidized, the equivalent of 353MWh/year. Passive solar house Photovoltaic cell technology
- 15. WASTE MANAGEMENT Waste collection in the past has been a municipal responsibility for 100 years.
- 16. WASTE COLLECTION TODAY Since 2003 a regional responsibility serving 1.1 million people Approximate1000 employees Public service enterprise (no privatization)
- 17. HANNOVER LAHE WASTE TIP Central waste tip since 1937 Monitoring of seepagewater and gas since 1990 No more unprocessed waste is dumped since 2005
- 18. Result at Kronsberg-housing-area: Approx. 30% reduction in waste volumes (City: 219 kg per household p.a., Kronsberg: 154 kg per household p.a.)
- 19. EX : CONSTRUCTION SITES • Waste sorting on site • Recycling of waste from demolition and modernisation projects • 1989 - 2002, reduction in rubble and building site waste of around 170,000 tonnes p.a.
- 20. PAPER • 4,500 paper collection bins in the city • plus weekly kerbside collections • 40,600 tonnes p.a. = 79 kg per inhabitant
- 21. GLASS • More than 400 bottle banks in the city • 16,800 tonnes p.a.= 33 kg per inhabitant • Decrease due to new regulations on returnable containers this year
- 22. PACKAGING(YELLOW SACK) • 5,300 collection bins plus kerbside collection every other week • 11,000 tonnes p.a. = 21 kg per inhabitant
- 23. COMPOSTING • 1998-establishment of organic waste collection system • 2002 18,500 t (35 kg per inhabitant) • plus 32,000 t green waste from plant nurseries and gardens
- 24. SOIL MANAGEMENT KRONSBERG 700,000 m3 excavated soil re-used, making about 100,000 lorry journeys unnecessary and thus saving 1,200 tonnes of CO2 emissions
- 25. THANK YOU . DANKE