T.R. Lakshmanan, director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, offered the following definition from the Bruntland Commission: 'Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present generations without compromising the ability of future generations.' The technologies and policies that received the most attention would provide per-unit-of-service reduction of three kinds of social costs (external costs, in economist's terminology) with respect to light duty transportation. The main factors to be reduced were oil use, greenhouse gases, and air pollution. Undesirable side effects of continually expanding transportation activity, including congestion and habitat loss, were also discussed. The conference included debate about priorities among these five categories of social cost, about which organizations should take action to achieve the reductions needed in each, and about what specific actions these organizations should take.
Interpretive summary of the 1997 conference on policies for fostering sustainable transportation technologies
1997
22 pages
Report
No indication
English
1997 ITE International Conference Transportation and Sustainable Communities
Online Contents | 1997
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