Impact of the new Cohesion policy 2014-2020 Land Use Modelling Group, Sustainability Assessment Unit (DG JRC) Airports and Ports Ricardo Barranco ricardobarranco@jrc.ec.europa.eu 18 January 2019
Airports and Ports Airports and ports are extremely important nodes of transport; Key elements for the economy and important factors for the location of human activities; New airports and ports are not expected to be built with Cohesion Policy Funds; Predicted to be directed towards improvement of existing infrastructure; Increases in the attractiveness of surrounding areas to urban and industry/commercial uses. 18 January 2019
Mainly peripheral countries. Regions selection: NUTS2 regions with an investment in airports greater than 10 million EUR; Mainly peripheral countries. Airports selection: GISCO (2001-10-28) used as spatial source of the airports location; Selection of airports classified by Eurostat as ‘main airports’; Eurostat statistics on “Airline traffic data by main airport” were used to select airports with an increase trend in total number of passengers/year during the period 2003-2011. 18 January 2019
Multi-ring buffer analysis: Multiple ring buffers of 5, 10, 15 and 20 Km around each airport; Intersection between rings and urban, industrial/commercial CLC classes. Selected NUTS2: 29 Selected Airports: 42 18 January 2019
Transformed through a normalization; Results: - Calculation of areas and percentages of urban, industrial/commercial areas within each rings; Distribution of funds between rings of influence, indicating potential positive impacts; Transformed through a normalization; Creation of a "locspec” layer which enhances suitability for the location of land uses. 18 January 2019
Results (Lithuania 48M€): 18 January 2019
Urban Locspecs 18 January 2019
Industry Locspecs 18 January 2019
Urban and Industry Locspecs 18 January 2019
Ports: Similar methodology; Impacted land-use considered was industry/commercial areas; Freight statistics from Eurostat were used to determine the importance of the ports and their growth trends. 18 January 2019
Calculation of intersected areas with each ring. Project status: Performed steps: Selected NUTS2: 42; Selected ports: 66; Multi-ring buffer analysis and intersection with industrial/commercial CLC class (c121); Calculation of intersected areas with each ring. Following steps: Compilation and normalization of calculated data; Creation of industry locspecs layer. 18 January 2019