As a first stage in the preparation of a regional traffic and transport plan for the area covered by the administrative body for the Amsterdam region (ROA), strategies will be developed, which will be in keeping with the policy objectives derived from ROA's report on traffic and transport. The 'SVV-2' Strategy confirms with the type of measures introduced by the national government's Second Transport Structure Plan. The Environmental Strategy consists of a number of measures expected to lead to the achievement of the environmental objective, expressed in terms of bringing under control car traffic. The strategies have been placed beside a description of the situation that would result by the year 2005 if present trends are altered. Analysing the results of traffic model calculations of the strategies and the unaltered situation leads to the conclusion that continuation of present trends is undesirable from the points of view of both environment and accessibility, that policy objectives relating to the environment can be met in theory, but that there are doubts about the social acceptation of the necessary measures and of decreased mobility.
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