Roundabout steers trucks to log port

The initiator of this active traffic control measure was the duisport Group. “We have kept our word to our customers and have realized this important infrastructure project within just 15 months construction time,” said Erich Staake, Chief Executive Officer of Duisburger Hafen AG. The bypass can absorb more than 13,200 vehicles daily, thus appreciably relieving Rheinhausen from heavy truck traffic. Due to the Bypass East 1,700 trucks daily will no longer have to drive through Rheinhausen-Mitte. The new connection thus offers advantages not only to the residents of Rheinhausen but also to the occupants of the logistics center. “We promised our customers early on that we would connect log port better to the autobahn network to the west and east and direct the traffic around Rheinhausen,” said Staake. He also announced that he wanted to relieve the roads sustainably in future. “It is our aim to direct more traffic onto the environmentally friendly transport modes rails and water.” Many suggestions by the occupants affected were taken into account as part of the planning approval procedure. “In the end we even carried out more compensation measures than were legally necessary,” said Staake.

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