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Monitoring the Spatial Impacts of Egnatia Motorway, Jan. 2012 Egnatia Motorway Observatory Monitoring and Assessing the Spatial Impacts of the Motorway Dr Vassilys Fourkas 30.01.2012 Maps: Manos Troulinos Thessaloniki, GR 1 monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 egnatia motorway observatory monitoring and assessing the spatial impacts of the motorway • • mobility and accessibility • balance and networking • economic and social cohesion • environment 2 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 • support the integrated management of the motorway • support of regional development policies and spatial planning • information for agencies and citizens • contribute to the harmonized assessment of TENs-T impacts on the territorial cohesion 3 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 contents • Egnatia as motorway • Egnatia beyond motorway • Spatial (or territorial) impacts – accessibility & mobility – balance & networking – land & environment – cohesion & development • Concluding remarks 4 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 5 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 6 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 7 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 8 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 9 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 beyond motorway • time-distance • accessibility • safety • mobility • transportation • regional • intra-regional • cross-border Feasibility study: final report, 2003, pp.231-236 • TEN-T transit • spatial networking, integration and planning • regional development National Transport Strategy, 1994 • new development axis National Spatial Planning Framework, 1999 Regional Spatial Planning Frameworks, 1997-2003 10 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 beyond motorway 11 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 beyond motorway 12 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 spatial impacts accessibility & mobility The time-distances between cities, terminal stations and transit centres have been on average decreased by 50%. 13 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 spatial impacts accessibility & mobility 14 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 spatial impacts accessibility & mobility 15 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 spatial impacts accessibility & mobility 16 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 spatial impacts accessibility & mobility The percentage of people that have access to urban centres within 30 minutes has been increased by 50%. 17 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 spatial impacts accessibility & mobility The accidents have been decreased by more than 70% data concerned with the routes served by the Egnatia motorway for the years 2000 and 2010 18 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 spatial impacts accessibility & mobility • The traffic volume counts carried out in the last 7 years (2004-2011) prove that the highest traffic volumes are recorded in the central sections of the motorway (Veria – Thessaloniki – Asprovalta) and especially along the sections between the interchanges of Kalochori and Serres (AADT: 27,000 to 62,000), in the outer area of Thessaloniki. • These sections serve both the west-east traffic and a great amount of urban (i.e. trips that have both of their ends within the urban agglomeration of Thessaloniki) and inter-Prefectural trips having Thessaloniki as one of their end (e.g. Thessaloniki-Serres, Thessaloniki-Kavala, etc). It should be pointed out that many of these trips are daily movements, as that they involve commuting. • Heavy vehicles: 15% to 26%. • Person movements: from 9,000 (east and west end sections) to over 110,000 (in the outer-Thessaloniki sections) users per day. • Annual vehicle kilometers: from aprox. 300 millions (west sections) to over 1,6 billions in the sections of Central Macedonia Region. 19 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 spatial impacts accessibility & mobility TRAFFIC DATA ALONG SECTIONS OF KOULOURA-KLIDI & NYMFOPETRA-RENTINA-ASPROVALTA YEAR 2004 YEAR 2005 YEAR 2006 YEAR 2007 YEAR 2008 YEAR 2009 YEAR 2010 YEAR 2011 change change MOTORWAY SECTION AADT (veh.) AADT (veh.) 2008-2009 2009-2011 AADT (veh.) AADT (veh.) AADT (veh.) AADT (veh.) AADT (veh.) AADT (veh.) AADT (veh.) AADT (veh.) HGV % I/C VERIA - I/C KOULOURA 13.000 16.800 18.700 # # # # # - I/C KOULOURA - I/C NISELIO * * * * 19.400 20.600 21.600 19.000 18% 6% -2% I/C NISELIO - I/C KLIDI 13.600 16.900 18.100 # # # # # - I/C LANGADAS - I/C PROFITIS 10.800 11.600 12.500 13.200 14.400 16.800 # # - 17% I/C PROFITIS - I/C VAIOCHORI * * * 13.500 14.500 16.900 16.700 15.500 14% 17% 7% I/C RENTINA - I/C ASPROVALTA * * * * 14.600 16.000 14.500 13.600 14% 10% -7% I/C ASPROVALTA - I/C STRIMONAS * * * 10.400 13.000 14.600 13.800 12.600 15% 12% -3% * No traffic count station existed # Non operational Sections examined SECTION ESTIMATED VEH.KM TRAVELLED IN 2011 I/C KOULOURA - I/C KLIDI 187.245.000 I/C PROFITIS - I/C ASPROVALTA 208.013.500 20 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 21 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 spatial impacts accessibility & mobility 22 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 spatial impacts accessibility & mobility 23 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 spatial impacts accessibility & mobility ORIGIN-DESTINATION OF COMMERCIAL MOVEMENTS (HEAVY VEHICLES) IN EGNATIA MOTORWAY, 2009 50% 43% 45% Central and West 40% Europe 5% East Europe and Asia 35% 2% SE Europe 28% 30% 12% 25% 21% 20% 15% 8% 10% 5% 0% Greece REGIONAL INTRA-REGIONAL TRANS-BORDER80% TRANSIT (within Greece) COUNTRIES 24 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 spatial impacts accessibility & mobility ORIGIN-DESTINATION OF COMMERCIAL MOVEMENTS IN EGNATIA MOTORWAY, by NUTS 3, 2009 25 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 spatial impacts accessibility & mobility CROSS-BORDER MOBILITY, 2009 26 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 spatial impacts accessibility & mobility 27 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 spatial impacts balance & networking 28 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 spatial impacts balance & networking The changes resulting from the Egnatia Motorway – Vertical Axes system in terms of morphological polycentricity, which is expressed by the size and location of the centres and is, in general, rather difficult to change, are minor and cannot be easily characterized as positive or negative. 29 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 spatial impacts balance & networking ANNUAL AVERAGE DAILY MOVEMENTS BETWEEN REGIONS, 1993 and 2006 As a percentage Change in the absolute PAIRS OF REGIONS of the total number of movements 1993 2006 1993-2006 Central Macedonia – East Macedonia & Thrace 55.6% 53.0% 148.5% Central Macedonia – West Macedonia 39.3% 41.8% 176.7% functional polycentricity Central Macedonia - Epirus 4.7% 4.3% 134.5% West Macedonia - Epirus 0.4% 1.0% 544.4% Total 100% 100% 160.5% Primary Source Data: Ministry of Planning and Public Works (1993) and EGNATIA ODOS AE – Traffic Department- Operation and Maintenance Division (2006) 30 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 spatial impacts balance & networking Very significant appear to be the impacts of the Egnatia Motorway – Vertical Axes system on the functional polycentricity of the urban centres’ network 31 EGNATIA MOTORWAY OBSERVATORY; EGNATIA ODOS S.A. monitoring the spatial impacts of egnatia motorway, Jan. 2012 spatial impacts land & environment Fragmentation index in the Prefectures crossed by the Egnatia Fragmentation index within a buffer zone of 1Km across the road motorway and 5 vertical axes (Impact Zone II) network of Egnatia motorway and 5 vertical axes (Impact Zone Ι) IndexIndex withoutwithout EgnatiaEgnatia IndexIndex withwith EgnatiaEgnatia Sector Prefecture andand vertical axesaxes andand verticalvertical axesaxes Thesprotia 11,844,54
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