EJPAU 2005. Bacior S. , Harasimowicz S. , Litwin U. THE IMPACT OF AN A-4 MOTORWAY SECTION UNDER CONSTRUCTION BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF BRZESKO AND TARNOW ON ARABLE LAND

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2005
Volume 8
Issue 4

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Environmental Development

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Bacior S. , Harasimowicz S. , Litwin U. 2005. THE IMPACT OF AN A-4 MOTORWAY SECTION UNDER CONSTRUCTION BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF BRZESKO AND TARNOW ON ARABLE LAND, EJPAU 8(4), #86.
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THE IMPACT OF AN A-4 MOTORWAY SECTION UNDER CONSTRUCTION BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF BRZESKO AND TARNOW ON ARABLE LAND

Stanisław Bacior, Stanisław Harasimowicz, Urszula Litwin
Department of Geodesical Arrangement of Rural Settlements, Agricultural University of Cracow, Poland

ABSTRACT

The impact of a motorway under construction on arable lands was assessed on an approximately 30 km long section of the planned ‘A-4’ motorway located between the two towns: Brzesko and Tarnów. The motorway section in question runs across 15 villages. In the villages investigated, the drop in the market value of lands resulting from the motorway project, and expressed per one kilometre of this motorway, varies from 300 to 3.000 crop units per 1 km; it depends mainly on the quality of arable lands and frequency of their occurrence. In cases where the motorway runs exclusively across arable lands, this drop equals a value of a strip of lost land the width of which ranges from 165 to 187 m, and this width exceeds the average motorway width by almost twice. The percentage rate (distribution) of individual problems on the total impact of motorway on arable lands, as studied herein, is as follows: repurchase and adoption of lands for the motorway route: 40 do 60%; quality reduction of lands in the vicinity of the motorway: 20 do 40%; spatial arrangement deterioration of fields and plots: 15 to 20%; and distance increase in access to arable lands: 1 to 5%.

Key words: motorway, arable lands, spatial arrangement of agricultural farm, arable land quality..

Stanisław Bacior
Department of Geodesical Arrangement of Rural Settlements,
Agricultural University of Cracow, Poland
Balicka 253a, 30-198 Cracow, Poland
email: rmbacior@cyf-kr.edu.pl

Stanisław Harasimowicz
Department of Geodesical Arrangement of Rural Settlements,
Agricultural University of Cracow, Poland
Balicka 253a, 30-198 Cracow, Poland
email: rmharasi@cyf-kr.edu.pl

Urszula Litwin
Department of Geodesical Arrangement of Rural Settlements,
Agricultural University of Cracow, Poland
Balicka 253a, 30-198 Cracow, Poland

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