Tool Characteristics

Name of the tool
Traffic planning – a SEA-based guideline for the regional level

Data required to utilise tool
GIS-based information, to the extent to which they exist, are used, including aerial photos, sector-relevant information (water, nature protection, geology, ecology etc.), supplemented by legal background information from the sectors; public concerns are incorporated for the project. A compendium of data and information in use from different departments is listed below:

Road construction
Evaluation the requirements of the project in the regional context. Surveying potential conflicts with regard to space-environment-traffic.

Water management
High water/flooding

Nature protection
Biotope mapping/GIS based information
Land use/natural potential
FFH-directive

Spatial planning
Local and regional development concepts, referring to their environmental and sustainability objectives Sensibility of certain areas

Forestry
Forest development plans
Hazardous zones

Agricultural areas
Quality of agricultural land - prevention of transecting valuable land

Geology
Landslides
Waste dumps –contamination through mobilisation
Influence on the groundwater

Noise
Preliminary checks about noise emissions

Hunting/fishery
Deer passes and stock

Form of output
Data are made available in form of maps (GIS) and reference values for different sectors.

Type of data output
Both qualitative and quantitative data are used. The data are prepared to be inserted into a planning process, which links to known procedures such as EIA and SEA.

What format is the tool available in?
The process tool is available in paper format.

What language/s is the tool available in?
German

Characterisation of the tool
The tool is a “guideline” which could be categorized under 1d) “checklist and guideline.

Factors covered

Environment	Social	Economic	Governance
1	1	1	1

Stage when tool is usually used

Inception of idea	Design	Design assessment	Construction	Operation	Demolition
1	1	1	0	0	0