Transport Policy and the Environment

<p>Transport in particular the motor vehicle is a major source of environmental disruption and in the developed world accounts for thirty percent of energy consumption. In most countries transport policy is a major government concern yet it is rare for decisions to be made outside a narrow set of sectoral considerations. </p><p>This book commissioned by the OECD looks at seven countries; the UK the USA West Germany France The Netherlands Greece and Italy. Each case demonstrates in different ways the problems in transport policies produced by the failure is a consequence of departmental division: transport the environment the exchequer etc. all have their own quite separate ministries. Here a group of economists have demonstrated both the folly of such partial ways of thinking and in writing their critiques of specific disaster have provided models for ways forward. Originally published in 1990</p>