Abstract
There can no longer be any doubt that every time each of us makes a choice of whether to go on a journey and what mode of transport to use, we are making a choice that affects the environment. In particular, motorised transport has both direct and indirect non-benign impacts on the environment and is thus less sustainable than other transport modes. Direct impacts include: anthropogenic (man-made) global warming through the production of greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuel; vehicle emissions affecting local pollution and health; vehicle noise; land use for roads and parking, railways and airports; extraction of materials for manufacture; and waste from scrapped vehicles. (Author/publisher)