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A pilot study and a special report on environmentally sustainable transport in
Central Eastern Europe are also available (CEI 1999 and OECD 2000a).
Table 2.2 The OECD’s Sustainable Transport Principles
Principle OECD Definition
1. Access People are entitled to reasonable access to other people, places, goods
and services, as well as responsible information that empowers them
towards sustainable transportation
2. Equity Nations, states and the transportation community must strive to ensure
social, interregional and inter-generational equity, meeting the basic
transportation-related needs of all people including women, the poor,
the rural, and the disabled. Developed countries must work together
with developing economies to foster practices of sustainable
transportation
3. Individual All individuals and communities have a responsibility to act as
& Community stewards of the natural environment, undertaking to make sustainable
Responsibility choices with regard to personal movement and consumption
4. Health and
Safety
5. Education
and public
participation
6. Integrated
Planning
7. Land and
resource use
8. Pollution
prevention
Transportation systems should be designed and operated in a way that
protects the health (physical, mental, and social well-being) and safety
of all people, and enhances the quality of life in communities
People and communities need to be fully engaged in the decisionmaking
process about sustainable transportation, and empowered to
participate. In order to do this, it is important that they be given
adequate and appropriate resources and support, including
information, about the issues involved as well as the benefits and costs
of the array of potential alternatives
Transportation decision-makers have a responsibility to pursue more
integrated approaches to planning.
Communities should be designed to encourage sustainable
transportation and enhance access, as a contribution to pro viding
comfortable and congenial environments for living. Transportation
systems must make efficient use of land and other natural resources
while ensuring the preservation of vital habitats and other
requirements for maintaining biodiversity
Transportation needs must be met without generating emissions that
threaten public health, global climate, biological diversity or the
integrity of essential ecological processes.
9. Economic Taxation and economic polices should work for, and not against,
well-being sustainable transportation, which should be seen as contributing to
improvements in economic and community well-being. Market
mechanisms should support fuller cost accounting, reflecting the true
social, economic and environmental costs, both present and future, in
order to ensure users pay an equitable share of costs.
Source: Conference ‘Towards Sustainable Transportation,’ Vancouver, March 1996