GREEN STREETS: THE 1991 INTERMODAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION EFFICIENCY ACT AND THE GREENING OF TRANSPORTATION POLICY IN THE UNITED STATES

This report tells the story of how transportation is linked to our environment and how the federal transportation policy known as the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) has helped communities make transportation decisions that consider the need to protect the environment. The report is presented in four sections: Transportation's Effects on Our Environment; Existing Connections Between Transportation and the Environment; ISTEA Reauthorization: We Can Do More for the Environment; and From Here to Sustainability. The three appendices consider environmental externalities of transportation systems: (A) Air Pollution; (B) Noise; and (C) Water Pollution.

• Corporate Authors:

  Surface Transportation Policy Project

  1100 17th Street NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Schiller, P
  • DeLille, B
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 55 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Environmental impacts; Environmental protection; Government funding; Noise; Sustainable development; Transportation policy; Water pollution
• Identifier Terms: Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991
• Uncontrolled Terms: Reauthorization
• Subject Areas: Environment; Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00748674
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 6 1998 12:00AM