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Alternative Title:
A supplement to World Highways & ITS International
Corporate Creators:
ITS International
Corporate Contributors:
Econolite
Subject/TRT Terms:
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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


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