It is important for Budapest Airport (BUD) to harmonize its activities with international environmental and climate protection objectives, and to involve other companies operating at the airport. There is significant potential for emissions reductions at the airport, by means of green mobility developments. We added the first electric vehicle to our fleet in 2015, and installed one of the first rapid chargers in Budapest at one of our car parks in the same year. Since then, we have steadily increased the number of alternatively powered handling and transport vehicles on the landside and the airside, and are developing the related infrastructure. Vehicles are often used for shorter distances at the airport; we are therefore also developing bicycle routes, to reduce the use of motor vehicles. We carried out a survey of our employees’ travel and transportation habits, and, based on the results, plan to introduce a mobile phone application to facilitate car sharing and joint commute to work. Airport staff will be able to use the new app already in the first quarter of 2019.
In the course of future infrastructure developments, we are rethinking transport routes in and outside the airport. For example, during the reconstruction of transport junctions, we take care to create the shortest possible delivery routes and support environmentally friendly modes of transport, as far as possible.
We involve the other stakeholders of the airport region in the planning and implementation of large-scale developments, so that both their viewpoints and environmental interests can be taken into account, thus reducing the environmental burdens arising from the daily operation of the airport.
