The paper challenges part of the sustainable transport literature. Sustainable transport plans often focus on reducing carbon emissions in a specific city, region or country, and this neglects two handicaps of strong unilateral action. The first is that climate is a global commons problem, so a...

Bringing the results of economic appraisals and environmental assessments before technical and political decision-makers in ways that are clear, concise and transparent is essential if planning and decision making procedures are to achieve a sustainable transport system. This report makes...

- Substantial progress has been made in improving the sustainability of transport in Europe in a number of areas and is reported in this paper. Nevertheless there remain important problems and challenges: - unsustainable rates of traffic growth, locally and in some cases at regional or...

Der Europäische Binnenmarkt hat im Zusammenhang mit der Liberalisierung der Verkehrsmärkte zu einem intensiveren innereuropäischen Warenaustausch geführt. Neben die positiven Aspekte dieser Entwicklung treten insbesondere für Transitländer umwelt- und verkehrspolitische Probleme. Diese...

The legislative and policy context of the common transport policy -- European transport initiatives -- The polluter pays principle : the theory of market mechanisms -- Road pricing in theory and practice -- Sustainable development and transport -- The polluter pays principle in practice.