Conflict between transportation safety and environmental concern.

Author(s)
Ziari, H. & Khabiri, M.M.
Year
Abstract

It is possible to redesign the existing roads to provide a safer and more convenient environment for non-motorized modes. This also results in improved efficiency of public transport vehicles and enhanced capacity of the corridor when measured in number of passengers transported per hour per lane. A great majority in Iran today accepts environmental protection as one of the most important goals. The answer to the growing conflict between environment and transport is the model of "sustainable mobility" which follows from the concept of "sustainable development", the keynote of the UN-Conference for Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro 1992. In fact the tight Iran regulations to avoid or at least to minimize interferences in nature and landscape have a very high rank in the planning of new roads, bypasses or alterations to old roads. In these cases the legal instrument of "Highway Design Guidelines" will guarantee road safety its important place. For the covering abstract see ITRD E137120.

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Library number
C 49154 (In: C 49130 CD-ROM) /72 / ITRD E137144
Source

In: Measures to assess risk in traffic as reflected by individual test performance, in attitude measurement and by behaviour and interaction : proceedings of the extra workshop on International Cooperation on Theory and Concepts on Traffic Safety of the International Cooperation on Theories and Concepts in Traffic Safety ICTCT, Campo Grande, Brazil, 21-23 March 2005, Pp., 9 ref.

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