Evaluation of Alternative Solutions of General Design of Railway Lines with Regards to Environmental Protection

Abstract

The railway, by its physical size, is a specific continuous object in an area whose impact on the environment can be extremely unfavorable. The changes occurring under the influence of these effects have a strong feedback effect that can lead to new negative states and often very dramatic consequences. In this paper, within the General project for the construction of infrastructure corridor in the central part of the Kolubara basin, the evaluation of alternative solutions for rail sections is shown for the protection of the environment through methodology of multi-criteria compromise ranking. Identified and quantified are adverse impacts on the environment in an area that is a potential corridor. To analyze the impact, taking into account their specific characteristics and spatial relationships, certain indicators for each of the alternative solutions are determined. The procedure and results of multi-criteria evaluation is also presented.