On assessing the environmental impact of urban road traffic

Abstract

The objectives of urban transportation plans are increasingly being framed in environmental terms. This has resulted in part from the knowledge that the transport system can be manipulated to achieve desirable patterns of urban development and in the more negative sense from growing awareness of the disamenity that stems from urban road traffic. Discussion is restricted to the physical environmental impact of road traffic in terms of noise, pedestrian delay and hazard, visual intrusion, severance and atmospheric pollution. Recent research in the U.K. is examined. Special attention is drawn towards the planning problems that will result from increasing traffic on “secondary and local roads”. The final section deals with problems presented by the lack of a comprehensive evaluative framework for seeking environmental goals and recommends the use of some interim measures.

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