TRANSPORT EFFICIENCY AND THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT. IS THERE A CONFLICT?
This article is derived from a report by Metra Consulting Group for the Dutch Ministry of Public Health and the Environment. The aim of Metra's study was to identify ways of reducing the environmental nuisance of urban traffic without adding excessively to transport costs. The main theme of the article is that the traditional idea of an inherent conflict between transport efficiency and the environment is mistaken. Both efficiency and the environment are threatened by the same thing: the excessive and indiscriminate use of vehicles. This comes about because of defects in the fiscal and regulatory framework within which people take transport decisions. Suitable reforms in this framework would simultaneously enhance the environment and improve access for all classes of road user. In the development of this theme, particular attention is paid to transport activities which tend to be neglected by policy makers, such as walking, cycling and urban goods distribution; and to measures which are not always thought of as instruments of policy at all, such as locational policy and development control, vehicle design, and vehicle taxation, especially of goods vehicles.(a) (TRRL)
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Corporate Authors:
Taylor & Francis
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Authors:
- PLOWDEN, S
- Publication Date: 1983-10-12
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 363-398
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Serial:
- Transport Reviews
- Volume: 3
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: Routledge
- ISSN: 0144-1647
- EISSN: 1464-5327
- Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ttrv20
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Economic efficiency; Environment; Environmental protection; Evaluation and assessment; Mobility; Planning; Policy; Policy making; Private transportation; Public transit; Traffic congestion; Transportation; Urban areas; Urban goods movement
- Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency
- ITRD Terms: 632: Congestion (traffic); 5911: Efficiency; 2455: Environment; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 9105: Mobility (pers); 143: Planning; 173: Policy; 746: Private transport; 744: Public transport; 1155: Transport; 313: Urban area
- Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00381468
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
- Files: ITRD, TRIS
- Created Date: Mar 30 1984 12:00AM