Table 3 Objectives and assigned measures from the federal government’s freight transport and logistics masterplan 2008

Making optimum use of transport infrastructure – shaping transport to make it more efficient

1. Develop and deploy more traffic management systems on busy sections of federal motorways

2. Standardize and link up the traffic management systems on federal motorways nationwide

3. Speed up implementation of the “Development programme to increase the number of parking areas at service stations and rest areas on federal motorways”

4. Continue and intensify the measures to tackle congestion by optimizing roadworks management

5. Provide traffic information and communications services for heavy goods vehicles on the motorway network by using toll information (value-added services)

6. Develop a strategy to speed up introduction of the European Train Control System (ETCS) on freight corridors in Germany

7. Develop a national ports strategy

8. Develop a national airports strategy

9. Take concerted action with shippers and the freight transport sector to stagger freight traffic (extending ramp times)

10. Create a focal point – the Fed. Government Commissioner for Freight Transport and Logistics

Avoiding unnecessary journeys – ensuring mobility

1. Urban Logistics Initiative

2. Step up investment in innovative and capacity-enhancing technologies

3. Optimize transit traffic

4. Short sea shipping

Shifting more traffic to the railways and inland waterways

1. Review the regulatory framework for freight transport in intermodal competition

2. Increase funding for combined transport

3. Evolve handling technologies and organization in combined transport

4. Internalize external costs

Upgrading more transport arteries and hubs

1. Segregate freight and passenger traffic

2. Review the requirement plans

3. Press ahead with the implementation of PPP solutions for the speedy and efficient delivery of motorway widening and motorway maintenance projects

Environmentally friendly and climate-friendly transport

1. Develop a strategy to vary toll rates according to the route driven and the time of day

2. Mitigate noise on the railways

3. Establish a financial assistance programme to encourage the use of modern technologies to reduce the noise caused by rolling stock

4. Optimize processes in the logistics chain taking greater account of environmental concerns

5. Further tighten environmental and safety standards (emissions reduction, noise mitigation, safety technology)

Good working conditions and good training in the freight transport industry

1. Step up the enforcement of social legislation in the road haulage sector to improve road safety

2. Launch a basic and further training initiative

3. Hold regular summits on the subject of work and training in the freight transport and logistics sector

4. Launch a lighthouse project to improve the international profile of logistics courses in higher education

5. Monitor the working conditions in the freight transport and logistics sector as part of the market observation activities of the Federal Office for Goods transport

6. Improve seafarers’ working and living conditions

Further measures to make Germany even more attractive as a centre for logistics

1. Establish a freight transport and logistics network

2. Implement a marketing strategy to promote Germany as a centre for logistics

3. Security strategy for the freight transport and logistics industry