SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF THE PROSPECTIVE NEW RAILWAY LINE IN SLOVENIA
Socio-Economic Impact Assessment (SEIA) represents the most widely used tool for determining the potential current and future social and economic impacts of proposed infrastructure and other development projects and for developing appropriate policies and measures by which the...
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Silesian University of Technology
2021
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| Sumario: | Socio-Economic Impact Assessment (SEIA) represents the most widely used
tool for determining the potential current and future social and economic impacts of
proposed infrastructure and other development projects and for developing appropriate
policies and measures by which the identified adverse effects can be mitigated or
eliminated, and positive social and economic impacts can be effectively capitalized on for
the benefit of communities in which the projects are spatially located. In Slovenia, SEIA
is not legally binding; for this reason, its use depends on the content and nature of specific
development projects as well as on the assessments of the contracting entity. In this paper,
the results of a partial SEIA of the new railway link site selection in the Pomurska region
on the route Bad Radkersburg (A) - Murska Sobota (SLO) are presented. The assessment
was carried out at three hierarchical territorial levels: at the level of EU, the Republics of
Slovenia and Austria; at a wider cross-border level that includes the Austrian Province of
Styria and the Slovenian Podravska and Pomurska regions; and at a narrower cross-border
level, covering the area between the Austrian town Bad Radkersburg and the Slovenian
town Murska Sobota, also including some other important settlements on the Slovenian
side of the border. For the purpose of the analysis, we prepared a proposal for four corridors
of the new railway line on the route Bad Radkersburg - Murska Sobota. The proposed
corridors were evaluated considering the set of seven selected criteria and three evaluation
parameters. With the help of the implementation of partial SEIA, we selected the most
suitable corridor for the prospective new railway line in this part of Slovenia. We ascertain
that SEIA is an appropriate instrument for evaluating the social, economic, and partly also
spatial impacts of transport infrastructure planning and construction. Therefore, we suggest
that it would be advisable to consider its future inclusion in the relevant legal and regulatory
framework in Slovenia. |
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