ARC members finalising Interreg application for a better quality of life in airport regions
ARC members engaged in the successful QLAIR project have now finalized an Intereg application to bring the findings one step further. Participating airports in the QLAIR-Capitalisation project will be Paris (Orly), Prague, Barcelona, Stockholm, Brussels, Helsinki and Warsaw.
QLAIR - Capitalisation aims to achieve better quality of life in the surroundings of airports by effectively dealing with the issue of noise annoyance via a variety of approaches and instruments. QLAIR promotes a shift to an integrative approach with full stakeholder involvement. The QLAIR-capitalisation partnership represents 7 major European airport regions from 7 countries that studied this issue in the preceding years on own resources. These airports are those of: Paris (Orly), Prague, Barcelona, Stockholm, Brussels, Helsinki and Warsaw. In intensive cooperation extensive information was collected, knowledge exchanged and policies, approaches and tools were discussed. The findings are laid down in reports and stood central in a conclusive meeting in December 2009 in Amsterdam. The partnership has the ambition to continue its mission with full speed and to capitalise the results of their work in QLAIR-Capitalisation.The partnership will translate these results to their respective regions. That means the start of a process per region of finding the best way to implement best practices and to involve and commit all relevant key players to agree on the necessary actions for the years to come.
The final result will be a set of actions per region laid down in Action Plans. The Action Plans can be regarded as strategic documents with a binding character for the parties involved in the drafting process. Via the Airport Regions Conference network in which almost all relevant major European airports participate, the results of the project will be disseminated via modern communication instruments and a concluding conference. The results will be reported continuously in the European Commission Observatory on Airport Capacity.
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