2. Topics
• Lübeck
• Map of Lübeck
• Means of transport
• How students travel to school
• Air pollution
– 2012
– 2011
• Noise pollution
• The noises of Lübeck
• Encouraging reasons to travel sustainably
• Future plans
• How sustainable is our region?
– Person transport
– Distribution of passenger transport
3. Lübeck
• located in the north of Germany: Schleswig-
Holstein (SH)
• at the coast of Baltic sea
• Largest German baltic port ships to
Scandinavia, Russia, Baltic states
• European route E 47: important highway from
Lübeck via Copenhagen, Denmark to Sweden
• Only commercial airport in SH
• Lübeck-Hamburg railway: one of the most
important mainline railways of SH and Hamburg
5. Means of transport
• Airport Blankensee
• Train station
• Bus station
• Bicycle paths
• Ferry
• Car
• Taxi
6. How students travel to school
• Often pretty difficult/time-consuming to go by
bus
• Some parents take their kids by car
• Most of the students go by bike
• Some walk
• No school bus to our school
7. How students travel to school…
100.00% 80.00%
90.00% 70.00%
80.00%
60.00%
70.00% grade 3/4
grade 3/4 50.00%
60.00%
grade 5/6/7 grade 5/6/7
50.00% 40.00%
grade 8/9/10 grade 8/9/10
40.00% 30.00%
30.00% 20.00%
20.00%
10.00%
10.00%
0.00% 0.00%
… in summer … in winter
For this study 198 persons from our school and an elementary school have
been questioned.
8. The school way
80.00%
60.00%
70.00%
50.00%
60.00%
40.00% 50.00%
30.00% 40.00% grade 3/4
grade 3/4
20.00% 30.00% grade 5/6/7
grade 5/6/7
20.00% grade 8/9/10
10.00% grade 8/9/10
10.00%
0.00%
0.00%
1 to 5 min 5 to 15 15 to 30 longer
1 to 2 km 2 to 5 km 5 to 10 km longer
min min
School way distance
Time they need for their school way
For this study 198 persons from our school and an elementary school have
been questioned.
9. Air Pollution
• Federal Office for agriculture, environment and rural
areas is in charge of the control of our air pollution
• In Lübeck there are 2 permanent checkpoints
• 2011
– Low air pollutant emissions
– Limit values for Particulates were not exceeded
– Limit values for annual average concentration of nitrogen
dioxide were exceeded
• Carbon monoxide is not measured too low
pollutions since 2009
• Lübeck is the 17th cleanest city (of 42 tested cities) in
Germany
10. Particulate
limit
2012
• Limit value:
over 50 days
exceeded
• Limit value:
over 35 days
exceeded
• Limit value:
over 25 days
exceeded
• Limit value:
up to 25 days
exceeded
11. Particulate
limit
2011
• Limit value:
over 50 days
exceeded
• Limit value:
over 35 days
exceeded
• Limit value:
over 25 days
exceeded
• Limit value:
up to 25 days
exceeded
12. Noise Pollution
• Lübeck :
– traffic
• Not as loud as in e.g. Rome, car horns are less used
• Now: official project running about noise pollution results in
February 2013
– airplanes
• Small airport in Blankensee (southern part in Lübeck)
• But no flights in the night
– trains
• Lübeck Central Station busiest of all the railway stations in
Schleswig-Holstein
ships
• not directly in Lübeck Travemünde
• Skandinavian quay: biggest German ferry port more than 130
departures per week
14. The noises of Lübeck
55 dB (A)to 60 dB (A)
60 dB (A)to 65 dB (A)
65 dB (A) to 70 dB (A)
70 dB (A) to 75 dB (A)
75 dB (A) to 80 dB (A)
Over 85 dB (A)
Thomas-Mann-School
15. Encouraging reasons
to travel sustainably
• To save our environment
• Protect wildlife (less wildlife accidents with bikes than cars)
• Stay fit go by bike
• Cheaper (using bikes instead of cars) save gas save
money
• No traffic jams save time
• Better conscience about economy
16. Future plans
• Expansion of
– federal highways
– Highways (A20)
– Rail network
• Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link
• There‘s a discussion about the transport of
asbestos and toxic waste to Schleswig-Holstein
17. How sustainable is our region?
Person transport
• Bus
– You can reach everything by bus
– “Hybrid”- bus (electro)
• Train
– Big train system DB “Deutsche Bahn”
• Car
– Nevertheless many people going by car
– “Cars to rent” there are car rental services, you can rent a car
for days or weeks
• Bike
– statistics especially students go to school by bike
18. Distribution of passenger transport
in Northern Germany
Transport 1960 2010
modes
Car, motorbike 64% 73%
Train 16% 7%
Bus, tram, 19% 7%
underground
rail
Aircraft 1% 13%
