Monitoring the impact of roads on the environment

The methodology primarily deals with the issue of obtaining relevant data on air quality pollution and noise pollution in various stages of the construction of transport infrastructure, which will make the assessment of the environmental impacts of transport infrastructure more precise. In particular, it introduces the condition of monitoring air quality and noise pollution after the construction as a check for the assumed state specified in the documents on the assessment of environmental impacts only on the basis of modeling. In the event of detection of excessive pollution compared to the assumption, it will be possible to request the application of appropriate measures to meet the assumptions in order to prevent possible serious impacts on human health.

The aim of the methodology is therefore to unify the procedures for preparing projects, implementing and evaluating air quality and noise pollution monitoring for individual sections of roads in order to provide objective information on the actual state and development of the quality of various environmental components in the area affected by road construction and operation, with a focus on air and noise pollution.