Communication with public stakeholders on the femern link project in Germany
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| − | In the past | + | In the past major construction projects in Germany lead to conflicts between the public community and the project representatives. During the process of approving the permission for construction these conflicts caused long delays, a raise of costs and decrease in the public acceptance. |
| − | The | + | The fixed Fehmarn belt link will connect Denmark and Germany with a 19 km tunnel between Rødby and Puttgarden. The Project including the construction of 97 km of high-speed railway tracks in north Germany is one of the biggest construction projects in Europe planned at the time. |
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| + | Especially the german railway company Deutsche Bahn is in need to establish a new way of communication and public stakeholder relationship due to a couple miscarried major projects in the past few years. | ||
To avoid conflicts with public stakeholders the german federal ministry of transportation and the Deutsche Bahn, both stakeholders with financier interests, invented new ways of involving opponents. | To avoid conflicts with public stakeholders the german federal ministry of transportation and the Deutsche Bahn, both stakeholders with financier interests, invented new ways of involving opponents. | ||
| − | As in earlier | + | As in earlier projects public opponents had been something to let layers take care about, the new way of dealing with opponents is to involve and listen to them in order to find a compromise. |
| − | So called dialog forums as a | + | So called dialog forums as a debate on a partnership basis was established. Former the project representatives used to only support formal enquiries and fact finding hearings but to encourage the public debate and to reduce the opponent force the project team also organizes public meetings with citizen and municipality representatives. The current development and the progress in planning is constantly published on the website as well as on public meetings. |
That ables the public stakeholder to object their comments at a point of time when the planning is still able to be transformed on an easier way. | That ables the public stakeholder to object their comments at a point of time when the planning is still able to be transformed on an easier way. | ||
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Abstract
In the past major construction projects in Germany lead to conflicts between the public community and the project representatives. During the process of approving the permission for construction these conflicts caused long delays, a raise of costs and decrease in the public acceptance.
The fixed Fehmarn belt link will connect Denmark and Germany with a 19 km tunnel between Rødby and Puttgarden. The Project including the construction of 97 km of high-speed railway tracks in north Germany is one of the biggest construction projects in Europe planned at the time.
Especially the german railway company Deutsche Bahn is in need to establish a new way of communication and public stakeholder relationship due to a couple miscarried major projects in the past few years.
To avoid conflicts with public stakeholders the german federal ministry of transportation and the Deutsche Bahn, both stakeholders with financier interests, invented new ways of involving opponents. As in earlier projects public opponents had been something to let layers take care about, the new way of dealing with opponents is to involve and listen to them in order to find a compromise.
So called dialog forums as a debate on a partnership basis was established. Former the project representatives used to only support formal enquiries and fact finding hearings but to encourage the public debate and to reduce the opponent force the project team also organizes public meetings with citizen and municipality representatives. The current development and the progress in planning is constantly published on the website as well as on public meetings.
That ables the public stakeholder to object their comments at a point of time when the planning is still able to be transformed on an easier way.
