VDP Srl

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The necessity to update the Airport Development Plan to adopt a new system for internal mobility led to the implementation of an Environmental Impact Study. The innovative GRTS mobility plan allows the reduction of internal traffic volume causing the improvement of environmental and security conditions of the airport territorial system.

In particular, the environmental nature of the plan is clear in the following themes and objectives:

• Planned approach: anticipation and integration of environmental issues inside the project;
• Air traffic: harmonization of the transport objectives with the containment of people living within the acoustic footprint of the airport;
• Road traffic connected to the airport: preparation of a comprehensive strategy, involving different timescales and instruments, regarding the implementation of a railway line serving the airport;
• Harmonization objectives: regulation of resource consumption and waste and pollutant production.
The Environmental Impact Study addresses the issue of the relationship between mobility and development plan through:
• Monographic Studies:
    - Traffic Flow Analysis;
• Planning Reference Framework:
    - Reconstruction of settlement and relational scenarios of the plan;
• Project Reference Framework:
   - Summary of the Traffic Flow Analysis;
   - Description of plan interventions and of ADR (Aeroporti di Roma S.p.A.) initiatives;
• Environmental Reference Framework:
   - Consideration of the traffic-related pollution sources.

PROJECT CHARACTERISTICS

The relationship between the development plan and air and noise pollution is addressed in the Environmental Impact Study through:

• Monographic Analysis: air and noise quality studies;
• Project Reference Framework: environmental analysis of runway usage models;
• Environmental Reference Framework: acoustic fingerprint simulations and quantification of exposed population;
• Environmental Reference Framework: simulations concerning distribution of air pollutants.

EIS Project Reference Framework contains a section focused on waste management, which examines production dynamics and management models, and identifies the 2020 scenario, involving planning goals and targets, with and without (optimized model) changes in the management methods.

Regarding the fauna, vegetation and ecosystem context, in the EIS Environmental Reference Framework it was carried out a study on the bird-strike phenomenon that, on the basis of the historical data recorded, develops a potential future scenario and takes into account diverse mitigation actions.