Dresden declaration on turnaround in transport policy

On 15 September 2021, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Udo Becker (Supervisor of sub-project D2, "Scenarios of the transformation of the transport system: How will sustainability developments, environmental justice considerations, and the transition to non-fossil energy sources actually work?") celebrated his farewell from actively teaching at TU Dresden after 27 years. He has headed the Chair of Transport Ecology and will remain at the Faculty of Transport Sciences "Friedrich List" as a senior professor.

Together with some of the most important German experts in transport planning and ecology, a group of 40 or so participants - including representatives from German universities, the Federal Environment Agency, the Saxon State Ministry for Energy, Climate Protection, Environment and Agriculture, Dresden Transport Planning and the German Society for International Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ GmbH) - discussed and passed the “Dresdner Erklärung zur Verkehrswende” ("Dresden declaration on turnaround in transport policy"). The declaration contains the ten most important aspects for an social-ecological “Verkehrswende” (turnaround in transport policy) and was signed by all attendees (see TU Dresden report).

Further information (in German) can be found here, including a link to download the declaration.