TRAFFIC POLLUTION: CONTROL POLICY AND RESEARCH TREND

This paper focuses on the control policies and countermeasures to prevent traffic pollution, and researches to enforce them. Traffic pollution, such as air pollution and road traffic noise caused by motor vehicles, continues to be one of the most serious and complicated environmental problems in major urban areas, and will remain so in the "Network Society" projected into the year 2000. The first step of regulating emission from vehicles, which depends on technical availability, halfway succeeded, and the second step directed towards reduction of friction between traffic and residences in respective areas by means of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIS) and improvement of road structure and roadside environment is in progress. While the effectiveness of those countermeasures reached the plateau, a wave of urbanization and motorization overwhelmed and canceled them. This lead to the third step of a more comprehensive planning policy cooperating with transportation and urban management. The fourth policy expected is an economic incentive policy, such as road pricing, that takes the place of conventional regulatory countermeasures.

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• Authors:
  • Nishioka, S
• Publication Date: 1989-1

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 73-81
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
  • Volume: 23A
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0965-8564
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air quality management; Automobiles; Buses; Countermeasures; Environmental impacts; Exhaust gases; Noise control; Road pricing; Transportation planning; Trend (Statistics); Trucks; Urban transportation
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• Old TRIS Terms: Exhaust emission control
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Motor Carriers; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00482786
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 30 1990 12:00AM