Influence of traffic on air pollution on the TEN-T route Ústí nad Labem – Mělník – Zdiby

About this project

<p>The project focuses on measuring of air quality on a route within the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) – Eastern and East Mediterranean Corridor (section connecting the state border CZ/DE – Prague) and preparing 3 action plans to reduce the impact of air pollution.</p> <p>The surroundings of the corridor are polluted by pollutants from road, rail and water transport. After an analysis of the affected area, three main urbanized localities were selected on this route: Praha-Zdiby, Mělník and Ústí nad Labem. Each municipality has a different composition of emission sources. It is therefore desirable to determine the share of traffic in air pollution in these localities. All these municipalities struggle with increasing road transport (e.g. plans to build new logistic centres), do not have sufficient measured data to adopt binding measures for their cadastre to regulate the construction activities and plan, with main focus on air quality and improvement of the environment. &nbsp;</p> <p>The implementation will be based on the results of PZKO 2020+ Northwest Zone CZ04, Central Bohemia Zone CZ02 and Prague Agglomeration CZ01.&nbsp;</p> <p>The project partners will carry out automated air quality measurement, collect samples using sampling devices (PP1 ENVItech), they will subsequently analyse the data in a lab to identify the sources of air pollution (LP VŠB TU Ostrava), model the data (PP3 Norsk Energi) and prepare action plans (PP12 GetBizDone). The partners will jointly implement the CP and inform about the project publicity according to the project methodology. They will cooperate with all involved municipalities and their citizens. The partners will arrange a trip for participants and representatives of municipalities to Norway in order to share inspiration and experiences of good practice.</p>

Bilateral cooperation results

The Norwegian partner participated in the online project team meetings, attended the opening and closing conferences and participated in the presentation of the project results and outputs during his visit to the Czech Republic. There has been a sharing of experience in the development of pollution models. A very interesting contribution was the application of Norwegian type pollution modelling to areas in the Czech Republic. Results and good practice from both countries were shared, especially in preparing the Czech Republic for lower air pollution limits. We would like to develop our cooperation in further international projects. A debate on this topic arose between different segments of experts at the final conference and during the Norwegian visit to Prague, and plans are now being continued.

Project partners

• Norsk Energi AS Donor project partner· Norway
• SPOLEČNĚ, z.s. Project partner· Czechia
• Czechia GetBizDone, s.r.o. Project partner· Czechia