PALMA, 14 (EUROPA PRESS)
The Council of Mallorca has awarded the contract to Movilidad & Transporte Asesores SL (MOVyTRANS) to prepare a new traffic capacity study that will determine the maximum number of vehicles the island can accommodate, in accordance with the bill currently being debated in Parliament.
The island's governing body has emphasized that this report is a "key" element in the development of the future regulations that will govern the entry of vehicles into Mallorca starting next summer, in accordance with the draft bill approved by the Mallorca Council's plenary session on June 5.
In a press release, the Mallorca Council explained that the conclusions of this study will be used to establish annual or biennial limits through a resolution approved by the Mallorca Council's plenary session.
The study, which will be carried out within three months, will establish the technical criteria that will be used to set the maximum number of vehicles that can enter the island through its ports, as well as the limit for rental cars.
This information will be obtained from trends and the collection of data on the average daily traffic volume (ADTV) from Mallorca's road network, the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB), shipping companies, the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT), and the Regional Government.
The concessionaire, MOVyTRANS, has extensive experience conducting mobility studies throughout Spain. It has collaborated with other public administrations and private organizations, such as the Council of Ibiza, the Community of Madrid and the City Council of Madrid, the city councils of Logroño and Zaragoza, and Real Madrid, among others, in the preparation of mobility-related studies. In fact, it was the company that carried out the load capacity study to allow the Council of Ibiza to establish its quota for incoming vehicles.
The island's Councillor for Territory, Mobility, and Infrastructure, Fernando Rubio, has indicated that the study will determine the number of vehicles that will be allowed to enter Mallorca and will establish a maximum limit for the number of rental cars.
He also highlighted that the Council "has not stopped working" to ensure that, once the Parliament has approved the law, the regulations on vehicle entry can take effect "immediately."
"Proof of this is the hiring of this traffic study to collect data and establish vehicle limits, as well as the agreements with shipping companies and the APB, which will be signed in the coming months. The Council of Mallorca is working to reduce traffic congestion and is confident that the law will yield positive results, as has happened in Ibiza, where they have managed to reduce the number of cars by 35,000 in a single year," they stated.
The data from this analysis will allow for a comparison of the current state of Mallorca's roads with the results obtained in the first traffic study conducted by the Council of Mallorca.
This study concluded that in 2023, nearly 380,000 vehicles entered the island, a figure that represents a 108 percent increase compared to the number of vehicles that arrived in 2017, a year in which there were more than 834,000 cars on the island's roads.
This figure contrasts with the nearly 957,000 cars that circulated on Mallorca's roads during the peak week of August 2023. Therefore, according to this study, there would be between 90,000 and 120,000 more vehicles, using 2017 as a reference.
