Sustainability for road infrastructure : transportation responds to environmental challenges

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• Alternative Title:
  A supplement to World Highways & ITS International
• Corporate Creators:
  ITS International
• Corporate Contributors:
  Econolite
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Exhaust Gases Highway Facilities Highway Planning Road Infrastructure Sustainable Transportation
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Corporate Publisher:
  Route One Publishing Limited
• Abstract:
  Safety was, until very recently, the prime
  
  guiding criterion of road transport development.
  
  Environmental impacts enjoyed scant regard, being
  
  seen as a necessary evil if life and commerce were to
  
  go on. A few, more progressive regional and national
  
  governments implemented schemes and initiatives
  
  which showed what could be done with a little
  
  thought and application, while more green-minded
  
  individuals made lifestyle choices which reduced their
  
  effects on the world around them. In reality, though,
  
  their efforts yielded little in the face of continued
  
  profligacy and even outright denial elsewhere.
  
  A decade ago, few could have predicted that
  
  emissions and energy policy would rank as an equal
  
  to safety in political terms. Whatever one’s view of
  
  the success or otherwise of the Kyoto Protocol and its
  
  successors (the 16th session of the Conference of the
  
  Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention
  
  on Climate Change was just starting as this foreword
  
  was being written), they have at their heart a common
  
  theme: that efficient energy use could yield significant
  
  cuts in emissions at (relatively) low cost.
  
  Transport is not our biggest single polluter. But it is a major one. It is reasonable to
  
  expect that big efforts be made to curb its effects, therefore, and this first Sustainability for
  
  Road Infrastructure supplement is especially significant given its genealogy. Combining
  
  the strategic, constructional and operational foci of World Highways and ITS International
  
  magazines, it looks at the challenges and solutions of road transport all the way from the
  
  conceptual to the actual; a fact reflected in the order of the articles herein. As such it is a
  
  rare and precious resource, and one which will grow in importance in coming year
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c778a74612be62efc22ab52bf80fa92b5e3fabba2ac03a57a4758068c7a2b938
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/18563/dot_18563_DS1.pdf
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