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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Main Authors:	Li, Shanjun, Xing, Jianwei, Yang, Lin, Zhang, Fan
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC TRANSIT ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AIR POLLUTION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/909931601918368631/Transportation-and-the-Environment-A-Review-of-Empirical-Literature http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34592

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spelling	okr-10986-345922022-09-20T00:09:46Z Transportation and the Environment : A Review of Empirical Literature Li, Shanjun Xing, Jianwei Yang, Lin Zhang, Fan TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC TRANSIT ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AIR POLLUTION 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. 2020-10-08T13:55:58Z 2020-10-08T13:55:58Z 2020-10 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/909931601918368631/Transportation-and-the-Environment-A-Review-of-Empirical-Literature http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34592 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9421 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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description	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.
format	Working Paper
author	Li, Shanjun Xing, Jianwei Yang, Lin Zhang, Fan
author_facet	Li, Shanjun Xing, Jianwei Yang, Lin Zhang, Fan
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title	Transportation and the Environment : A Review of Empirical Literature
title_short	Transportation and the Environment : A Review of Empirical Literature
title_full	Transportation and the Environment : A Review of Empirical Literature
title_fullStr	Transportation and the Environment : A Review of Empirical Literature
title_full_unstemmed	Transportation and the Environment : A Review of Empirical Literature
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publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/909931601918368631/Transportation-and-the-Environment-A-Review-of-Empirical-Literature http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34592
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Transportation and the Environment : A Review of Empirical Literature

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