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Sustainability for road infrastructure : transportation responds to environmental challenges
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2010-12-01
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Alternative Title:A supplement to World Highways & ITS International
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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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