IN SEARCH OF SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT SYSTEMS

The aim of this paper is to develop some thoughts on the question of identifying the maximum allowable pollution share by the transport sector, assuming a critical level of maximum resource use, a maximum carrying capacity, a maximum environmental utilisation space, a maximum sustainable yield or some other critical threshold level for environmental decay. The paper uses here the notion of Maximum Environmental Capacity Use (MECU) to indicate the maximum resource use of a given environmental stock that, in a given time period, is compatible with both socio-economic objectives and environmental conditions now and in the future. It seeks to answer the question whether at the sectoral level, namely that of the Transport System, the idea of a transport-specific MECU, denoted here as MECUTS, can be operationalized. It looks in particular at alternative new possibilities, with particular economic background, to control pollution emission in the transport sector.

• Corporate Authors:

  FREE UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL INSTITUTE

  DE BOELELAAN 1105
  AMSTERDAM,   Netherlands  1081 HV
• Authors:
  • Nijkamp, P
  • VLEUGEL, J M
• Publication Date: 1995

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 17 p.
• Serial:
  • SERIE RESEARCH MEMORANDA
  • Issue Number: RESEARCH MEMORANDUM
  • Publisher: FREE UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL INSTITUTE

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Air quality management; Economic factors; Economics; Freight transportation; Law enforcement; Methodology; Mobility; Modal split; Noise; Policy; Transportation
• Geographic Terms: Netherlands
• ITRD Terms: 2452: Air pollution; 263: Economics of transport; 2433: Emission control; 1534: Enforcement (law); 741: Goods traffic; 9102: Method; 9105: Mobility (pers); 675: Modal split; 8078: Netherlands; 2492: Noise; 173: Policy; 1155: Transport
• Subject Areas: Economics; Policy; Security and Emergencies; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00722977
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Jul 26 1996 12:00AM