Sustainability and the interactions between external effects of transport

Public Acceptability of Sustainable Transport Measures

“…According to Himanen et al (2005), the debate on weak and strong sustainability can be translated into the design of sustainable transport policies. On the one hand, application of a weak sustainability vision is a gradual policy characterized by marginal and indirect interventions to make transport ecoefficient.…”

“…The impact that this can have on the effectiveness of the scheme is, however, recognised (e.g. Banister, 2008, Richardson, 2011and OECD/ITF, 2010 and is linked to the concepts of weak and strong visions for sustainability (Himanen et al, 2005, Miola, 2007.…”

The Eurorregio Galicia-Northern Portugal: a look to mobility from the Iberian context

“…A finales de los años setenta, la apuesta por el automóvil privado como modo fundamental de transporte, que se venía realizando en Estados Unidos ya desde los años treinta, provoca una crisis de estos planteamientos teóri-cos. Comienzan a ser visibles una serie de inconvenientes o externalidades vinculadas al transporte (Himanen, Lee-Gosselin y Perrels, 2005). La contaminación ambiental, el ruido, el espacio ocupado por infraestructuras y, sobre todo, la congestión, se perciben ya como grandes problemas (Buchanan, 1973).…”

City logistics: a chaos between research and policy making? A review

“…Several types of centres are included, e.g. city distribution centre, urban freight platform, freight village, etc., that have in common that flows from outside the city are consolidated with the objective to bundle inner-city transportation activities (Boerkamps and Van Binsbergen, [1]; Castro, et al, [1]; Koehler, [1]; Koehler, [3]; Lozano, et al, [4]; Patier, [6]; Takahashi and Hyodo, [1]; Van Duin and Jagtman, [1]; Wang and Chu, [2]; Yamada and Taniguchi, [4]). The main objective to use a consolidation centre is to make urban freight transport more efficient in order to reduce the pollutant emissions and increase the city accessibility (reduce the congestion in urban areas).…”

“…The aim of a sustainable transport strategy is ''to answer, as far as possible, how society intends to provide the means of opportunity to meet economic, environmental and social needs efficiently and equitably, while minimizing avoidable or unnecessary adverse impacts and their associated costs, over relevant space and time scales'' [6]. Since freight transport is part of the transport system it follows that the issue of sustainability must be addressed with regard to freight transport.…”