Topics• Lübeck• Map of Lübeck• Means of transport• How students travel to school• Air pollution

– 2012– 2011

• Noise pollution• The noises of Lübeck• Encouraging reasons to travel sustainably• Future plans• How sustainable is our region?

– Person transport– Distribution of passenger transport

Lübeck

• located in the north of Germany: Schleswig-Holstein (SH)

• at the coast of Baltic sea• Largest German baltic port ships to Scandinavia,

Russia, Baltic states• European route E 47: important highway from Lübeck

via Copenhagen, Denmark to Sweden • Only commercial airport in SH• Lübeck-Hamburg railway: one of the most important

mainline railways of SH and Hamburg

LübeckTravemünde (Sea)Center (Townhall)Our School

Means of transport

• Airport Blankensee• Train station• Bus station• Bicycle paths• Ferry• Car• Taxi

How students travel to school• Often pretty difficult/time-consuming to go by

bus• Some parents take their kids by car• Most of the students go by bike• Some walk• No school bus to our school

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For this study 198 persons from our school and an elementary school have been questioned.

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For this study 198 persons from our school and an elementary school have been questioned.

Air Pollution

• Federal Office for agriculture, environment and rural areas is in charge of the control of our air pollution

• In Lübeck there are 2 permanent checkpoints• 2011

– Low air pollutant emissions– Limit values for Particulates were not exceeded– Limit values for annual average concentration of nitrogen dioxide

were exceeded• Carbon monoxide is not measured too low pollutions since

2009• Lübeck is the 17th cleanest city (of 42 tested cities) in Germany

• Limit value: over 50 days exceeded

• Limit value: over 35 days exceeded

• Limit value: over 25 days exceeded

• Limit value: up to 25 days exceeded

Particulate limit

2012

• Limit value: over 50 days exceeded

• Limit value: over 35 days exceeded

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Particulate limit

2011

Noise Pollution• Lübeck :

– traffic• Not as loud as in e.g. Rome, car horns are less used• Now: official project running about noise pollution results in February 2013

– airplanes • Small airport in Blankensee (southern part in Lübeck)• But no flights in the night

– trains • Lübeck Central Station busiest of all the railway stations in Schleswig-

Holstein- ships

• not directly in Lübeck Travemünde• Skandinavian quay: biggest German ferry port more than 130 departures

per week

Noise Pollutionin Schleswig-Holstein 2006

The noises of Lübeck

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Encouraging reasonsto travel sustainably

• To save our environment• Protect wildlife (less wildlife accidents with bikes than cars)• Stay fit go by bike• Cheaper (using bikes instead of cars) save gas save money• No traffic jams save time• Better conscience about economy

Future plans

• Expansion of – federal highways– Highways (A20)– Rail network

• Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link• There‘s a discussion about the transport of

asbestos and toxic waste to Schleswig-Holstein

How sustainable is our region?Person transport

• Bus– You can reach everything by bus– “Hybrid”- bus (electro)

• Train– Big train system DB “Deutsche Bahn”

• Car– Nevertheless many people going by car– “Cars to rent” there are car rental services, you can rent a

car for days or weeks

• Bike– statistics especially students go to school by bike

Distribution of passenger transportin Northern Germany

Transport modes

1960 2010

Car, motorbike 64% 73%

Train 16% 7%

Bus, tram, underground rail

19% 7%

Aircraft 1% 13%

Thank you for reading!

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