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Krakow
Status Quo
Municipal transport in Krakow - a city of 750 000 inhabitants and one of the largest university centres in the country - is based on tram and bus transport. The problem of exhaust gas emissions is especially acute in Krakow, as the city is located in a basin and has intense car traffic. Despite the ongoing upgrade of the fleet, only five buses with an alternative drive system operate in the city. These buses run on compressed natural gas (CNG). Most recently the Krakow public transport company purchased 15 articulated buses SM18 LNG and 16 standard buses SM12 LNG. The cost of one bus exceeds 7 million Euro. LNG constitutes one of the cleanest fuel types. The process of liquefaction requires very thorough purification of natural gas from carbon dioxide, nitrogen, propane-butane, humidity, helium, etc. This process allows to obtain an environmentally-friendly fuel with a high octane number 130 (the highest number so far in bus drive systems). 97% of this fuel is methane.
Fuelling Infrastructure
Within the modernisation of the public transport bus fleet also a LNG filling station was constructed. This task is implemented by the company KRI S.A. - a supplier and producer of gaseous fuels from Wysogotowo near Poznan. The cost of the filling station amounts to around 0.4 mill EUR. Due to application of the latest technological solutions, filling will take only around 5 minutes, which is an excellent result compared with the filling time for CNG buses.
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Rzeszów
Status Quo
Rzeszów is a city in south-eastern Poland with a population of about 179,000 (2010). The public transportation system is based exclusively on buses. Rzeszow suffers increasing air pollution from motor vehicles. It is particularly difficult to cope with, due to dense urban structure and the fact that the city is situated in a valley. Until recently, the public transportation buses were mostly the Jelcz PR110 models, produced in 1980’s. Those were not meeting the environmental standards, largely contributing to deterioration of local environmental situation. For that reason the Municipal Transportation Company, together with local authorities decided to replace those outdated vehicles by modern buses, using CNG. The project was supported by 4 mill PLN (circa 1 mill EUR) from EkoFundusz (Polish environmental foundation). The major target was to reduce local air pollution, due to emissions from motor vehicles, especially in the dense populated city centre and - in long run - reduction of exploitation costs. At present, this is the biggest modern, environment friendly bus fleet in Poland. At present the Municipal Transportation Company in Rzeszow, operates 40 CNG vehicles.
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