Green Transportation Policy Globally in Europe

  

Green Transportation Policy Globally (Europe)


6 Key Policy Issues in Europe


ACCIDENT

  • § The development of sustainable transport policies implies reconciling environmental, social and economic objectives and will require further improvements on a wide range of fronts for inland transport. Death and injury from accidents are the most important issue in making transport systems more sustainable. Current rates of death and injury from road accidents are regarded as far from acceptable by Governments even in countries at the forefront of road safety performance. Accident rates in other modes, though much lower is still not regarded as acceptable. However, policy responses are not addressed in this document as road safety is the subject of a considerable volume of ECMT work. Excluding accidents, the key issues for current policy making can be summarized as follows.

WEALTH CREATION

  • §   Transport is a fundamental element in the creation of wealth. Improving access to markets for jobs, housing, goods and services is essential to realizing the goals of European economic integration across the continent.  Infrastructure investments are not always the most efficient route to improving access, but unnecessary delays in commencing work on valid projects as a result of poorly coordinated tests of economic utility, financial viability and environmental acceptability are increasingly perceived to be a barrier to integration and economic renewal.

ACCESS

  • §  All citizens should benefit from the access transport services provide in a reasonably equitable manner. This implies avoiding excessive dependence on private automobiles if certain sections of society are not to be excluded.

 NATURE

  • § The costs attributed by the public to impacts of transport infrastructure investments on landscapes and biodiversity are rising.

 NOISE and Co2

  • §   Noise, from road use and from rail freight, in urban areas and in mountain valleys, is a major and growing problem. It frequently ranks top of the environmental issues of concern in household surveys. It is also important to conserve existing Access Traffic growth Intimidation Nature Noise Durable areas of quiet and limit the fragmentation that can result from the construction of new infrastructure.
  • § Most Member countries have still to identify, in quantitative terms, measures for the transport sector that will make a enough contribution to meeting the economywide targets set under the 1997 UN Kyoto Protocol on reducing emissions of CO2.

 ENFORCEMENT

  • §     In effective enforcement of existing regulations, e.g. parking regulations and vehicle inspections exacerbates some of the above issues. This is the result of either insufficient resources being allocated to enforcement or to inappropriate design of regulations. In many cases improving the design or enforcement of existing regulations should be addressed before introducing additional measures.


       Posted by Muhammad Azim





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