Assessment of the motorway’s impact on agricultural land on the example of the section of motorway A4 Jasień – Bobrowniki Małe

¹ Department of Geodesy, Cadastre and Photogrammetry, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, Agricultural University in Kraków, Poland
² Institute of Geoinformation and Cartography, Faculty of Geodesy, Geospatial and Civil Engineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
³ Department of Spatial Development and Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, Agricultural University in Kraków, Poland

^* e-mail: geomm@poczta.onet.pl

Abstract

The innovative method of assessment of the motorway impact on agricultural land presented in this study allows to estimate all losses related to the directions of this impact. The basis for the determination of losses is the analysis of land use variability and bonitation classes as well as the location of access roads to the land along the axis of the planned motorway. The applied measure of the motorway's impact on agricultural land is the change in land value, at which determination only the diversity of its suitability for agricultural production is taken into account. The developed method of determining the impact of the motorway on agricultural land was presented on the example of the A4 motorway section between the villages Jasień and Bobrowniki Małe. The existing motorway section was evaluated and then the obtained data were compared with the results obtained for the alternative version of the motorway running on the same section.