Policy Instruments for Achieving Environmentally Sustainable Transport

Policy Instruments for Achieving Environmentally Sustainable Transport

Moving people and freight in an environmentally sustainable manner will be one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. Overall, insufficient progress has been made so far  towards achieving environmental sustainability for the transport sector. A new target-oriented approach is needed that pl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Corporate Authors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Content Provider (content provider), Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development Content Provider
Other Authors: Gilbert, Richard, 1940- (-), Wiederkehr, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Paris : OECD Publishing 2002.
Subjects:
Transportation > Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development.
Transportation > Social aspects.
Transportation > Planning.
Economics > Environmentally Sustainable Transport
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705717406719
Table of Contents:
  • CONTENTS; Executive Summary; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Background to the EST project; 1.2. Backcasting: the key feature of the EST project; 1.3. Overview of Phases 1 and 2; 1.4. Phase 3 and the present report; 2. Instruments for achieving EST; 2.1. Assessment and selection of instruments by the Member countryproject teams; 2.2. The instrument packages proposed by the project teams; 2.3. Comparisons of instrument packages; 2.4. Phasing of implementation; 2.5. Discussion of the Member country teams' strategies; 2.6. Conclusions from the work on instruments
  • 3. Economic and social implications of EST3.1. Assessment of economic implications; 3.2. Estimation of external costs; 3.3. Assessment of social implications; 4. Barriers to attainment and gaps in knowledge; 4.1. Individual barriers to attainment of EST; 4.2. Societal barriers to attainment of EST; 4.3. Technological barriers to attainment of EST; 4.4. Gaps in knowledge; 4.5. Conclusions concerning barriers and gaps in knowledge; 5. The way ahead; 5.1. Strategies for achieving EST; 5.2. Overcoming barriers; 5.3. Changing public attitudes
  • 5.4. Infrastructure investment and technological development5.5. Comprehensive strategies are required; 5.6. Guidelines for moving towards EST; 5.7. Prospects for progress towards EST; 6. Conclusions; Appendix A: Detailed tables; Appendix B: Economic Analysis; Part I: Assessment of the economic implications of EST; Part II: Estimation of external costs for the EST case studies; End notes

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