Baseline Situation & Challenges
To ensure the safety and efficiency of Danube navigation, not only a continuous waterway infrastructure is needed, but also shore-side infrastructure for stationary traffic.
For several years now, the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMK) and viadonau have been examining the corresponding needs and gradually renovating and upgrading the public berths along the Austrian stretch of the Danube. In the future, it will be important to further develop the public mooring places in terms of both quantity and quality in a user-oriented manner and to drive forward the upgrading of all public mooring placeswith shore power facilities. Cooperation with the public and private actors involved is essential.
In addition, the towpaths managed by viadonau are to be maintained according to the needs of the different user groups (shipping, recreational activities, emergency services, actors in the tourism and leisure industry, administration).
Planned Activities
- Improve the availability of public berths, e.g. by closing gaps in the offer and implementing an occupancy monitoring system
- Improve the equipment of public berths, e.g. through improved mooring and access structures, car parking facilities, reduction of noise and exhaust fumes through shore power connections
- Develop financing and operating models for shore power facilities at public berths and support the development of such models at private berths through coordination and networking
- Improve control options for wastewater disposal for tourism and recreational shipping
- Preserve shoreline areas for recreational use Ensure road safety for pedestrians and cyclists on the shore-side paths managed by viadonau, taking into account nature-oriented maintenance concepts
- Evaluate administrative barriers to the use of necessary infrastructure facilities and eliminate conflicts of use on towpaths and shore access roads (e.g. in the context of tourism and recreation)