Organized by: Centre SOS Praha, Institute for Environmental Policy, MobiLocal21 - European Network of Mobility and Local Agenda 21, Independent Centre for Environmental Issues (UfU).

Objective of the Seminar: To exchange experience and examples of the best practice and solving the traffic problems in metropolis Berlin, Praha and Warszawa, and to introduce an actual issue of traffic noise, as well as to bring Civic initiatives into these problems solving.

Thursday 19th May 2005

Topic: Traffic noise
Venue: Goethe Institut, Masarykovo nábřeží 32, Praha 1
Parties concerned: Representatives of the City, NGOs, transport specialists (approx. 40 persons)

• 12:45 - 12:55    Presence
• 12:55 - 13:00    Opening - Centre SOS Praha, Institute for Environmental Policy
• 13:00 - 13:30    MUDr. Petr Šišma (Health officer, Station Hygiene of Praha the capital) - Traffic noise effects on the human health
• 13:30 - 14:00    Ing. Petr Chocenský (FD ČVUT, Praha) - Implementation of Directive 49/2002/EC into the Czech law
• 14:00 - 14:30    Slawomir Monkiewicz (BPRW S.A., Warszawa) - Traffic planning and traffic noise reduction measures in Warsaw
• 14:30 - 15:00    Break
• 15:00 - 15:30    Dr. Eckhart Heinrichs (CS Planungs- und Ingenieurgesellschaft) - Planning of the traffic noise reduction in Germany
• 15:30 - 16:00    Helmar Pless (VCD - Verkehrsclub Deutschland) - Activities reducing the traffic noise ("NoiseActionCase", Zones of Speed 30, etc.)
• 16:00 - 16:30    Ing. Libor Ládyš (EKOLA group, s.r.o., Praha) - Noise mapping in the Czech Republic
• 16:30 - 16:45    Discussion

(After every 25 min presentation there are 5 min for questions)

Friday 20st May 2005

Topic: Traffic problems in the Cities Prague, Warsaw, Berlin
Venue: Ministerstvo dopravy, nábř. Ludvíka Svobody 12/1222, Praha 1
Parties concerned: Representatives of the City, NGOs, transport specialists (approx. 40 persons)

• 8:45 - 8:55    Presence
• 8:55 - 9:00    Opening - Centre SOS Praha, Institute for Environmental Policy
• 9:00 - 9:25    Ing. Peter Kühnel (Building dpt. of Berlin - Neukölln) - Traffic problems in Berlin and their solving by the City council
• 9:25 - 9:50    Mieczyslaw Reksnis (Infrastructure Development Policy Office City of Warsaw) - Warsaw transportation system concept
• 9:50 - 10:30    Krzyzstof Rytel, Aleksander Buczynski (Green Mazovia) - Warszaw Round Table for Traffic; Project "The Civil Spokesman of Non-motorised People"
• 10:30 - 11:00    Break
• 11:00 - 11:25    Ing. František Laudát (Transportation Commitee, Municipality of Prague) - Traffic problems in Praha and their solving by the City council
• 11:25 - 11:50    Štěpán Boháč (Oživení - Bohemian Greenways) - Comparison of the "transportation budgetary sections" in Berlin and Prague
• 12:00 - 12:15    Mgr. Martin Fadrný (EPS - Environmental Law Service) - Legal adviser for the citizens annoyed by noise
• 12:15 - 12:45    Lunch
• 12:45 - 13:10    Dipl. Ing. Norbert Rheinländer (MobiLocal21) - City protests against building of a high-speed road, implementation of the traffic calming measures
• 13:10 - 13:35    Dipl. Ing. Wolfram Schmidt (Technical University Dresden) - Co-operation between public administration and citizens: possibilities to connect traffic planning, noise planning strategies and planning of the air quality development
• 13:35 - 14:30    Discussion: "What new/other can we do in the future?" - Projects of prospective co-operations within city and civic initiatives

(After every presentation there are 5 min for questions)

Saturday 21st May 2005

Excursion + Workshop of NGOs representatives or other concerned persons

• 10:00 - 12:00    Excursion, City ride: the most traffic loaded areas in Praha (centre, North-South cross road, Smíchov, Malovanka, Barrandovský most, SO Řepy - an example of sound-protection walls)
• 12:00 - 13:30    Lunch (Restaurant Mánes, Masarykovo nábřeží 250, Praha 1)
• 13:30 - 15:00    Discussion, planning of next co-operation among cities and NGOs, inspiration and exchange of good practices experience, possibility of sharing the materials of the study or conference results, and others
• 15:00 - 16:00    Summary of the seminar and worskop results

Languages: German, Czech, evtl. Polish. Interpreters assured.