Press release
Euro Football Championship 2012 under preparation in Lviv, Ukraine
Intelligent transport planning ensures smooth traffic and reduces CO2 emissions
Karlsruhe, April 07, 2009. Welcome to Lviv! This is how the host city will be welcoming all visitors during the 2012 European Football Championship in Ukraine. Until then, the city wants to develop an efficient and eco-friendly traffic and transportation system with the support from the German Ministry for the Environment, the KfW bank and German transportation experts, such as PTV AG.
The city of Lviv (German: Lemberg) is one of the four host cities of the football matches in 2012. Within the next three years, the cities have to provide the infrastructure that allows them to control and cope with the pedestrian between the stadium and the city centre, airport, railway station and bus terminal.
A comprehensive transport modernisation project is an important cornerstone. It is funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conversation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and the KfW bank (a promotional bank under the ownership of the Federal Republic and the federal states) and supervised by the Lviv's city council. The consortium consisting of the city council and the KfW bank has asked PTV AG as transportation experts to manage and coordinate the entire project.
Lviv's current transport situation will be analysed by PTV in partnership with the two German companies VCDB GmbH and DREBERIS GmbH from Dresden. Additionally, the experts will provide forecasts on expected traffic volumes during the soccer event in 2012 and even up to 2030. Recommendations with regard to strategic transport planning and future investment measures can be put forward based on the analysis and forecast results.
The key component is a multimodal traffic model developed by PTV's transportation experts, using the world's leading software system PTV Vision and its modules VISUM for transportation planning and modelling, and VISEVA for travel demand modelling.
The high volume of motorised private transport and insufficient public transport services are the major problems that need to be tackled by Lviv's city council. Since the traffic model covers all modes of transport, it is possible to visualise both bottleneck problems and mitigation measures. Planned projects, such as the tram line extension from the central station to the stadium, will be optimised through a feasibility study. The modernisation project will also include the construction and reconstruction of streets.
Not only soccer supporters will benefit from the recently started project. Intelligent transport planning and investments will also help to minimise traffic through the historic city centre and reduce CO2 emissions fostering Lviv's economic development and increasing growth opportunities in the travel sector.
Klaus Reinhardt, project manager at PTV Germany, emphasises: "The aim of the project "Lviv – urban transport strategy“ is to effectively minimise emissions and to sustainably improve public transport infrastructure, in particular regarding the preparation for and staging of the soccer event in 2012. The development of innovative solutions that have a multiplier effect and do not just focus on the single project are very important to both the Federal Ministry for the Environment and the KfW bank. As transportation experts in this field we have many years of experience in implementing major international projects and in providing specific task- focussed help and support."
Background information:
Project as part of BMU's international climate protection initiative
Project title: Urban Traffic Strategy for Lviv, Ukraine
Client: LVIV City Council
Contractor: PTV Planung Transport Verkehr AG
VCDB VerkehrsConsult Dresden-Berlin GmbH
Subcontractors: DREBERIS GmbH Dresden, National City Planning Institute"Mistoproekt“ Lviv, Lvivdiprokomunbud Lviv, National University "Lviver Politechnika"
Funded by: KfW Development bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Total project volume (including BMU funding): 500,000 Euros
For more information about the project, please contact Klaus Reinhardt
Internet: www.ptvag.com
E-mail: klaus.reinhardt@ptv.de
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