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TISs are necessary requirements for infrastructure proposals which will cater for significant amount of traffic or else that may have important traffic implications. AIS Environmental Ltd. has been involved in both the planning and assessment phases of these kinds of projects to provide traffic impact assessments and professional advice on the most appropriate traffic management measures.
AIS Environmental Ltd employs approved traffic experts supported by a team of traffic surveyors and equipped with both manual and automatic traffic counters in the preparation of these traffic studies.
AIS Environmental Ltd has carried out various traffic surveys at major road junctions in Malta and Gozo. These surveys were a fundamental study for the Feasibility and Environmental Impact Studies of the Trans-European Network (TEN-T), being amongst the major transport infrastructure projects in Malta and Gozo. |
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In addition to addressing the upgrade of the physical highway infrastructure, the proposed Transport Infrastructure Projects are designed to tackle the contextual issues of improving safety, alleviating traffic congestion, and achieving wider economic growth, in order to prevent the existing highways contributing to long-term social, environmental and economic decline. The projects have been guided by Sustainable Development Principles from the outset, utlising a checklist of sustainability factors relevant to transport, including the consideration of the emerging draft Sustainable Development Strategy for the Maltese Islands. Moreover, the iterative environmental impact appraisal process has promoted highway design in response to environmental considerations.
The Environmental Appraisal report has identified the environmental issues associated with the proposed Transport Infrastructural Projects and provides information relating to potential environmental impacts and mitigation. The level of detail provided by the appraisal process corresponds with the outline proposals that have emerged from the Feasibility Study for Transport Infrastructure Projects in Gozo and the appraisal report provides an initial foundation for future planning decisions regarding the projects. |
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As part of a Trans-European Network for Transport [TEN-T], a European Union trans-border initiative, Malta proposed a project for the improvement of an existing road network in Gozo, in consideration of the ever-changing seasonal transport demands for the sister Island of Malta. Through AIS Environmental Ltd the undersigned consultant was commissioned to draw up one component of a feasibility report on the proposals, namely focusing on environmental noise and vibrations. He was asked to predict, to a first degree approximation, the background noise levels emanating from the new road proposals. Sensitive receptors were considered, particularly at major traffic nodes, along hillside stretches of road as well as along exit and entry points of tunnels, with particular focus on the effects of noise and vibration on residential areas. Mitigation measures, residual impacts and monitoring are investigated and proposed respective to each proposal made |
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This TIS was commissioned by Ais Environmental Ltd. in response to MEPA’s request. The area of influence for the TIS as stipulated by MEPA included three junctions namely:
1. Triq in-Naxxar c/w Triq Birkirkara
2. Triq Birkirkara c/w Triq Anton Schembri and Triq Longo
3. Triq Birkirkara c/w Triq Tas-Sliema
The Scheme comprised the building of three blocks of apartments with:
- 12 apartments at ground level
- 14 apartments at the first, second and third floors
- 7 penthouses
- Garages/parking spaces at the lower and upper basement levels
- Storage areas and office space in the semi-basement level.
The TIS’s purpose was to ascertain the likely traffic generation from the development and the number of vehicles likely to use the roads and junctions of the area of influence and also the impact of this development on the environment.
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