Transport and environment: Need for sustainable solutions
- 1 Faculty of Technical Sciences, University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bitola, Macedonia
Abstract
Transport has irrepressible contribution for the effective development of economy and society. But, these contributions are exceeded by harmful environmental consequences that transport growth causes especially in urban areas. Air pollution, acid rain, noise, climate change are just few of the problems which every urban area is dealing with. Hence, it is very important to provide development of the transport that at the same time could increase its sustainability and minimize environmental degradation. Numerous sustainable transport solutions are available with a potential to decrease these negative influences and promote mobility with higher sustainability. This paper presents a review of sustainable solutions, successfully applied in practice, as guidance for those urban areas that are dealing with the environmental problems from transport, but still are a step behind in undertaking activities.
Keywords
References
- http://europa.eu.int/comm/transport/extra/home.html
- Emission control technologies to meet future European vehicle emission legislation, International Conference on EUROV, Association for Emissions Control by Catalyst AECC, Milan, Italy, December 2003.
- European Environmental Agency, Emissions of air pollutants, Version 20-08-2001.
- Climate change overview, Draft, Technical support document for staff proposal regarding reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles, California environmental protection agency, Air resources board, 2004.
- European Environmental Agency, Transitions towards a more sustainable mobility system, EEA report No 34, 2016.
- European Commission, Breathing free: fighting transport pollution in urban areas, Community research, 2002.
- http://themes.eea.europa.eu/Sectors_and_activities/transport/indicators/consequences/TERM03,2003.09/TERM2003_03_EEA31_Transport_emissions_ofair_pollutants_by_mode_final.pdf
- https://www.ipcc.ch/
- Clean urban transport – Results from the transport research program, ISBN 92-894-1548-7, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2001.