This document provides information about best practices in Hannover, Germany related to transportation, waste management, energy, air quality, and climate: - Hannover has a fantastic public transportation network of light rail, bus, and subway lines that residents are encouraged to use over driving due to available bike paths, pedestrian walkways, and park and ride options. - Waste management is a regional responsibility that utilizes strict sorting and recycling practices, resulting in a 30% reduction in household waste compared to the city average. Energy efficiency measures like passive solar housing and subsidies for efficient bulbs help reduce energy usage. - Air quality is monitored at multiple sites and data is collected going back at least 5 years to analyze trends.

1. EU BEST PRACTICE – HANNOVER, KRONSBERG, GERMANY
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2. INTRODUCTION
STATE: Lower Saxony
DISTRICT: Hannover (Hanover)
SUBDIVISION: 13 District
COORDINATES: 52°22’N, 9°43’E
LORD MAYOR: Stefan Schostok
TIME ZONE: CET/CEST (UTC +1/+2)
CITY AREA: 204.01 sq km (78.77 sq mi)
ELEVATION: 55 m (180 ft) above sea level
POPULATION (based on 2012): 509 485 person
DENSITY: 2 500 person / sq km

3. LANDSCAPE
Hanover has large green areas, with forests and
big parks.
The landscape is mostly flat, with the river Leine
going through the city.
The lake Masch (Maschsee) is rather spectacular,
considering its size as a man-made object.

4. HISTORY
Hanover is not a typical European city.
The city was one of the hardest hit during World
War II.
This area is surrounded by grey 1950's buildings
that give a somewhat heavy atmosphere to the
streets.
However, there still are several residential
neighborhoods consisting of late-19th-century
housing stock with often elaborate historicist
(Victorian) and Jugendstil (Art Noveau) decorations
just outside the downtown area, such as Oststadt,
List or Linden.

5. TRANSPORTATION
NETWORK
Hanover has a fantastic network of public
transportation, so it's best to just park your car and
ride.
If you plan to make more than two trips by tram,
bus, or subway, a day ticket is your best bet, buying
you unlimited travel on the public transport system.
The public transportation adopts an honor system
for tickets, but they do have ticket inspections once
in a while (also late at nights and early mornings).
The fine is quite high, so make sure you have a
ticket all the time.

6. Bike paths are provided in almost every street that
runs through the city.
There is no law on using a helmet, but make sure
that the bike has both front and rear lights if don't
want to get stopped by the police (Fine: €10).
Pedestrian paths are also provided along every
street and there is also a pedestrian area in front
of Central Station to Kröpcke.
It is possible to take bike on the tram or bus for
free on M-F 8:30AM-3PM and after 7PM. No time
restrictions on weekends.

7. THE HANNOVER
STADTBAHN
Stadtbahn (light rail) system in the city of Hanover,
Lower Saxony, Germany.
Opened on 29 September 1975
Replacing the city's tramway network over the
course of the following 25 years..
The Hanover Stadtbahn system consists of 12 main
lines, serving 196 stations, and operating on 121
kilometres (75 mi) of route
The system is run by üstra, which was originally an
abbreviation for Überlandwerke und
Straßenbahnen Hannover AG.
As of 2007, it transported 125 million passengers
per year.

8. S-BAHN RAILWAY
The Hannover S-Bahn is an S-Bahn network
operated by DB Regio in the area of Hannover.
It went operational shortly before Expo 2000 and
is focused on the Hanover region, and also connects
with adjacent districts and into the state of North
Rhine-Westphalia.
The S-Bahn is an evolution of a suburban railway.
The S-Bahn has seven lines in Hanover.
It is distinguished from the Hannover Stadtbahn,
which emerged from the Hannover tram network.

9. KRÖPCKE
Kröpcke is a large pedestrian area in the heart of
Hanover.
It is Hanover's major shopping spot, home to the
Opera house and has lots of places to eat.
The main station in the Hanover Stadtbahn network,
is also located here.
All Stadtbahn lines except the 10 and 17, call at
the station and it is the main interchange point for
the network.
It has six platforms in total on three lines that cross
each other in independent tunnels.

10. Kröpcke is the central place of the city of Hanover
in Germany.
Situated at the crossroads of Georgstraße,
Karmarschstraße, Bahnhofstraße and
Rathenaustraße.
One of its notable features is the Kröpcke clock,
which is a 1977 replica of an 1885 clock that was
scrapped after World War II.

11. CLIMATE
Hannover has a central European location on the
north-west European plain in Lower Saxony.
The climate is classified as coastal with warm
summers with the hottest month exceeding 22°C.
The lowland open location with exposure to winds
from north, east and west leads to relatively high
wind speeds averaging 3.3–3.4 m/s (wind speed
index 3).

12. The location and wind speed analysis, and the
resultant average dispersion index (Class 3),
suggest that the risk of poor air quality will be
related to specific periods of wind-still rather than
likely to occur under average conditions.
A further factor reducing risk is the very low
population density of 2,520 inhabitants per km2.
Climatic data indicate a medium vulnerability to
both winter and summer smog.
The former is due to the winter occurrence of
periods when a high pressure system above Europe
persists for several days.

13. AIR QUALITY
Hannover scored a total of 87.0 points for the air
quality monitoring capabilities index.
It indicates a very complete approach to air quality
management in the city with few deficiencies in any
section of the index.
Hannover collects all appropriate air quality data
and applies strict quality control measures.
A range of sites allows a comparison of spatial
distribution of pollutants, and there are good data
on all major pollutant compounds going back at
least five years, allowing trends to be evaluated.

14. ENERGY
Wind energy, solar which is 2 cogeneration plants
used for heating needs of the district.
Energy efficiency measures were foreseen
concerning construction of new buildings, training
courses on low energy buildings were organized for
constructors.
Low energy light bulbs were subsidized, the
equivalent of 353MWh/year.
Passive solar house
Photovoltaic cell technology

15. WASTE MANAGEMENT
Waste collection in the past has been a municipal
responsibility for 100 years.

16. WASTE COLLECTION TODAY
Since 2003 a regional responsibility serving 1.1
million people
Approximate1000 employees
Public service enterprise (no privatization)

17. HANNOVER LAHE WASTE
TIP
Central waste tip since 1937
Monitoring of seepagewater and gas since 1990
No more unprocessed waste is dumped since 2005

18. Result at Kronsberg-housing-area:
Approx. 30% reduction in waste volumes
(City: 219 kg per household p.a.,
Kronsberg: 154 kg per household p.a.)

19. EX : CONSTRUCTION SITES
• Waste sorting on site
• Recycling of waste from demolition and
modernisation projects
• 1989 - 2002, reduction in rubble and building
site waste of around 170,000 tonnes p.a.

20. PAPER
• 4,500 paper collection bins in the city
• plus weekly kerbside collections
• 40,600 tonnes p.a. = 79 kg per inhabitant

21. GLASS
• More than 400 bottle banks in the city
• 16,800 tonnes p.a.= 33 kg per inhabitant
• Decrease due to new regulations on returnable
containers this year

22. PACKAGING(YELLOW SACK)
• 5,300 collection bins
plus kerbside collection every other week
• 11,000 tonnes p.a. = 21 kg per inhabitant

23. COMPOSTING
• 1998-establishment of organic waste collection
system
• 2002  18,500 t
(35 kg per inhabitant)
• plus 32,000 t
green waste from plant nurseries and gardens

24. SOIL MANAGEMENT
KRONSBERG
700,000 m3 excavated soil re-used, making about
100,000 lorry journeys unnecessary and thus
saving 1,200 tonnes of CO2 emissions

25. THANK YOU . DANKE