Transportation and the Environment : A Review of Empirical Literature
In urban areas around the world, increasing motorization and growing travel demand make the urban transportation sector an ever-greater contributor to local air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. The situation is particularly acute in developi...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/909931601918368631/Transportation-and-the-Environment-A-Review-of-Empirical-Literature http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34592 |
| Summary: | In urban areas around the world,
increasing motorization and growing travel demand make the
urban transportation sector an ever-greater contributor to
local air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. The
situation is particularly acute in developing countries,
where growing metropolitan regions suffer some of the
world’s highest levels of air pollution. Policies that seek
to develop and manage this transportation sector—to meet
rising demand linked to economic growth and safeguard the
environment and human health—have had strikingly different
results, with some inadvertently exacerbating the traffic
and pollution they seek to mitigate. This paper provides an
overview of the findings of the recent literature on the
impacts of a host of urban transportation policies used in
developed and developing country settings. The paper
identifies research challenges and future areas of study of
transportation policies, which can have important,
long-lasting impacts on urban life and global climate change. |
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