Public understanding of the environmental impact of road transport

Public Understanding of Science

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 165-174

  Lane, Ben ^a,b  

^a Dept of Ecolane Transp Consult ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b Ecolane Transport Consultancy   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0013071870     PISSN: 09636625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-6625/9/2/305     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. OECD Motor Vehicle Pollution, Reduction Strategies Beyond 2010 (Paris: OECD, 1995).
2. The Department of Transport, Transport Statistic, Great Britain, 1998 (London: The Stationery Office, 1999).
3. S. Holgate, Quantification of the effects of Air Pollution on Health in the United Kingdom (London: The Stationery Office, 1998).
4. G. Stokes and B. Taylor, Public Attitude, to Transport and the Environment: Results from the 1993 British Social Attitudes Survey (Oxford, UK: ESRC Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford, 1995).
5. Lex Report on Motoring, Listening to all Road Users (Bourne End, UK: Lex Service PLC, UK, 1996).
6. Lex Report on Motoring, Driving for the Future (Bourne End, UK: Lex Service PLC, UK, 1998).
7. Other important measures include a reduction in the need for travel; an increased use of public transport; the use of smaller, more efficient internal combustion engines for private cars; and tighter controls on emissions of older vehicles. For a comprehensive discussion of the measures needed to achieve sustainable patterns of mobility see Chapter 9 of J. Whitelegg, Transport for a Sustainable Future; The Case For Europe (Chichester: Wiley & Sons, 1993).
8. J. Houghton, The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (Eighteenth Report), Transport and the Environment (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
9. Energy Saving Trust, "Energy Saving Trust Announces UK's Largest Environmental Transport Initiative" (promotional material) (London, 18 March 1997).
10. S. Eden, "Public participation in environmental policy: considering scientific, counter-scientific and non-scientific contributions," Public Understanding of Science 5 (1996): 183-204 (emphasis added).
11. Lex Report on Motoring, Lex Report on Motoring (Bourne End, UK: Lex Service PLC, UK, 1990).
12. Digest of Environmental Statistics, No. 18, Department of the Environment (London: The Stationery Office, 1996)
13. Lex Report on Motoring, Lex Report on Motoring (Bourne End, UK: Lex Service PLC, UK, 1990).
14. The Honda Dream Solar Car was the winner of the 1996 World Solar Challenge Race and is the current holder of the race record, completing the 3,010-km race route from Darwin to Adelaide, Australia in 33.32 hours; company information leaflet from Honda Corp.
15. S. Holgate, Quantification of the Effects of Air Pollution on Health in the United Kingdom (London: The Stationery Office, 1998).