1. Impact of the new Cohesion policy 2014-2020
Land Use Modelling Group, Sustainability Assessment Unit (DG JRC)
Airports and Ports
Ricardo Barranco
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2. 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.
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3. Mainly peripheral countries.
Regions selection:
NUTS2 regions with an investment in airports greater than 10 million EUR;
Mainly peripheral countries.
Airports selection:
GISCO ( ) 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
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4. 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
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5. 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.
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6. Results (Lithuania 48M€):
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7. Urban Locspecs
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8. Industry Locspecs
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9. Urban and Industry Locspecs
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10. 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.
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11. 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.
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