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Bourgas
Status Quo
Bourgas is the second-largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast with population 208,294. Bourgas is not only one of the most important industrial Bulgarian cities, but also a famous touristy centre, situated on the Black Sea side. During the summer season a large number of tourists from many European countries join the 210,000 local inhabitants and the road traffic intensifies correspondingly. That is why the Bourgas Municipality is taking measures aiming to increase the role of the public transport and to reduce air pollution. One of them is the operation of new LNG buses. The first delivery of 5 new buses was made in October, the second group of 5 vehicles arrived in December 2008. The buses are produced by the Check company TEDOM. Their diesel engines are specially designed to be operated with LNG. They have very low emissions level and meet the EURO 5 requirements. For example, the content of СО in the exhaust gases vary between 0.01 and 0.08 g/kWh, аnd those of the NOx - between 1.81 to 3.25 g/kWh
The biggest Bulgarian transport company MBus, operating in the region of the Black Sea city of Burgas, introduced for the first time in the country custom-made intercity CNG buses. In September and October 2008 the two buses TEDOM L12 G were delivered and put into testing operation on the quite busy regular line between Burgas and the town of Aytos (about 31 km).
According to findings of the EU funden project MADEGASCAR (Bourgas was one important member of the project group) the Bourgas region has one of the highest density of vehicles driven by natural gas (about 8,000 in 2009).
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Gorna Oryahovitsa
Status Quo
Gorna Oryahovitsa is a town in northern Bulgaria. The Municipality of Gorna Oryahovitsa is implementing measures for sustainable transport development in the city within the frameworks of the CIVITAS-RENAISSANCE project. The city of Gorna Oryahovitsa is an important transport node in the North-Central Bulgaria where road, rail and air transport are available. Due to its crossroad location and the economic development of the municipality and the region, the road traffic and especially the heavy one transiting the town is constantly growing, harming in this way the living and natural environment. New transition strategy towards clean vehicle fleets will be implemented in order to test the possibility for conversion of the available public transport diesel vehicles to environmental-friendly vehicles running on LPG/bio-diesel. As a pilot project, five of the conventional diesel buses used for urban transport needs will be converted into methane ones.
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Plovdiv
Status Quo
Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria with a population of approx. 381,000.
The EBRD extended a loan of 6 million EUR for renewal of the bus fleet and for launching of e-ticketing- The loan has been used for purchasing of 30 new buses running on natural gas to replace the old diesel buses, used in the city. The new CNG buses began servicing the bus routes in Plovdiv in September 2009. The loan of 6 mill EUR has been granted to the privately owned regional transport company Hebros Bus, which provides public transport services in Plovdiv and in southern Bulgaria, for the purchase of the buses. The Bank’s credit has been complemented by grant funds from the Dutch government for introduction of electronic ticketing system. Additionally the company has indulged itself to invest 1.3 mill EUR for building of own refuelling station for the needs of the new bus fleet and for refurbishment of two interurban bus stations.
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Sofia
Status Quo
Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 47th largest city by population in the European Union with 1.3 million people. The number of the motor vehicles is constantly increasing, which contributes to the high enough air pollution of the city.
In 1989 the Sofia Municipality started a programme for introduction of LPG into the public bus fleet. The programme is carried out through the municipal company Sofia Autotransport EAD, with co-financing by the Bulgarian Ministry of Environment and Waters. The programme is implemented through a number of projects, including conversion of diesel engines into methane ones, purchase of new methane-fuelled buses, construction of natural gas distribution pipeline and compressor stations. Currently, 55 buses on diesel-methane and 13 buses on methane are in operation. The exploitation of these buses in 2008 reduced the year consumption of conventional fuel by 4.53%.
Fuelling Infrastructure
There was constructed a distribution gas pipeline and of two gas compressor stations for LPG.
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