Green Transport, ‘Pros and Cons’
Although sustainable transport is a good concept, an idiology and in some countries, a governmental policy that consists of strenghening or replacing the current transport systems of an urbaan/suburban area with a more fuel efficient, space-saving and healthy lifestile, promoting alternatives and has low impact on the environment and human health, it has its own critisism.
Sustainable transport systems make a great contribution to the environmental, social and ecomonic sustainability of the communities they serve as poor transport management systems account to between 20-25% of the world’energy consuption and emmissions. Greenhouse gas emmissions from transport are increasing at a faster rate than any other energy using sector and is a mojor contributor to local air pollution and smog. traffic conjestion imposes economic costs by wasting people’s time and slowing business. The driving forces to sustainable mobility are encouraging walking, cycling and use of public transport.
David Banister and other writers’s ideas on sustainable mobility paradigmand and the London experience on controlling traffic are not bad ideas but might not be replicable in the other UK cities or be sussessful because each city in the UK has a unique cultural backgroung that includes the degree of conjestion, the city’s structures, the public transport situation (level of conjestion), the residential areas location to the city, the social developments, work and leisure facilities as compared to London. Mobility is essential to economic and social development. It enables people to access goods, services and information, as well as jobs, markets, family and friends (World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Geneva, 2010).
http://www.urbcsd.org/web/mobility.htm
Most of UK’s major developments are driven by the residents acceptance. Each UK city is dependent on the residents acceptance to its development project and this is influenced by the cultures and their ability to accept any planned development within their cities and surounding areas. My comment on the issue of sustainable mobility is based on the public awareness campaign. I feel there is still need to increase the awareness campaign in most of our UK cities, firstly for the residents to understand the benefit of using less cars in our streets and the negative impacts caused by traffic conjestion to the environment and to public health. Most people do not understand why trafic management is linked to the human health and the environment.
Once the people have a wider understanding of the advantages of controlling traffic, will only drive them to accept the plans to improve their citie’s structures in line with the London’s ideas and help to reduce conjestion and pollution. Currently people take cycling and walking as the means to exercise and have goog health and not the indirect impacts on the environment and health. Sustainable mobility can be encouraged by indirect measures like bringing the goods, services and information, jobs and markets closer to the residential areas. Other indirect measures can be encouraging schools to come up with their transport plans to avoid conjestion to our city roads near schools. More park and ride facilities must be cited near major cities. Public acceptability is the key to the issue of sustainable mobility
Although sustainable transport is a good concept, an idiology and in some countries, a governmental policy that consists of strenghening or replacing the current transport systems of an urbaan/suburban area with a more fuel efficient, space-saving and healthy lifestile, promoting alternatives and has low impact on the environment and human health, it has its own critisism.
Sustainable transport systems make a great contribution to the environmental, social and ecomonic sustainability of the communities they serve as poor transport management systems account to between 20-25% of the world’energy consuption and emmissions. Greenhouse gas emmissions from transport are increasing at a faster rate than any other energy using sector and is a mojor contributor to local air pollution and smog. traffic conjestion imposes economic costs by wasting people’s time and slowing business. The driving forces to sustainable mobility are encouraging walking, cycling and use of public transport.
David Banister and other writers’s ideas on sustainable mobility paradigmand and the London experience on controlling traffic are not bad ideas but might not be replicable in the other UK cities or be sussessful because each city in the UK has a unique cultural backgroung that includes the degree of conjestion, the city’s structures, the public transport situation (level of conjestion), the residential areas location to the city, the social developments, work and leisure facilities as compared to London. Mobility is essential to economic and social development. It enables people to access goods, services and information, as well as jobs, markets, family and friends (World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Geneva, 2010).
http://www.urbcsd.org/web/mobility.htm
Most of UK’s major developments are driven by the residents acceptance. Each UK city is dependent on the residents acceptance to its development project and this is influenced by the cultures and their ability to accept any planned development within their cities and surounding areas. My comment on the issue of sustainable mobility is based on the public awareness campaign. I feel there is still need to increase the awareness campaign in most of our UK cities, firstly for the residents to understand the benefit of using less cars in our streets and the negative impacts caused by traffic conjestion to the environment and to public health. Most people do not understand why trafic management is linked to the human health and the environment.
Once the people have a wider understanding of the advantages of controlling traffic, will only drive them to accept the plans to improve their citie’s structures in line with the London’s ideas and help to reduce conjestion and pollution. Currently people take cycling and walking as the means to exercise and have goog health and not the indirect impacts on the environment and health. Sustainable mobility can be encouraged by indirect measures like bringing the goods, services and information, jobs and markets closer to the residential areas. Other indirect measures can be encouraging schools to come up with their transport plans to avoid conjestion to our city roads near schools. More park and ride facilities must be cited near major cities. Public acceptability is the key to the issue of sustainable mobility
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