A Case Study of Land-use Planning Around Pipelines

In respect of art.12 of Seveso II Directive, the Italian regulation established criteria for land-use planning around major accidents establishments. In this paper its application, through a simplified procedure, is enlarged to pipelines, on behalf of Land-use Planning Service of Ferrara town which was interested in establishing criteria for assuring compatibility among an ammonia pipeline and residential areas and/or areas of public use. For sake of comparison, the accidental scenarios of the pipeline have been included in ARIPAR –GIS software and contour lines of individual risk have been calculated in order to show how territory planning could be alternatively achieved. Results are examined and compared and criteria, which could be inferred by the two outlined procedures, are discussed.