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APPENDICES
Appendix 2
Agenda 21: "Recommended Principal Activities related to the Transport Sector"
Selected sections of United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED),
Agenda 21, 1992.
Chapter 7, Section 7.52
Promoting efficient and environmentally sound urban transport systems in all countries should be a
comprehensive approach to urban-transport planning and management. To this end, all countries should:
a. Integrate land-use and transportation planning to encourage development patterns that reduce
transport demand;
b. Adopt urban-transport programmes favoring high-occupancy public transport in countries, as
appropriate;
c. Encourage non-motorized modes of transport by providing safe cycleways and footways in urban
and suburban centers in countries, as appropriate;
d. Devote particular attention to effective traffic management, efficient operation of public transport
and maintenance of transport infrastructure;
e. Promote the exchange of information among countries and representatives of local and
metropolitan areas;
f. Re-evaluate the present consumption and production patterns in order to reduce the use of energy
and national resources
Chapter 9, Section 9.15
Governments at the appropriate level, with the cooperation of the relevant United Nations bodies and, as
appropriate, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, and the private sector, should:
a. Develop and promote, as appropriate, cost-effective, more efficient, less polluting and safer
transport systems, particularly integrated rural and urban mass transit, as well as environmentally
sound road networks, taking into account the needs for sustainable social, economic and
development priorities, particularly in developing countries;
b. Facilitate at the international, regional, sub regional and national levels access to and the transfer
of safe, efficient, including resource-efficient, and less polluting transport technologies,
particularly to the developing countries, including the implementation of appropriate training
programs;
c. Strengthen, as appropriate, their efforts at collecting, analyzing and exchanging relevant
information on the relation between environment and transport, with particular emphasis on the
systematic observation of emissions and the development of a transport database;
d. In accordance with national socio-economic development and environment priorities, evaluate
and, as appropriate, promote cost-effective policies or programs, including administrative, social
and economic measures, in order to encourage use of transportation modes that minimize
adverse impacts on the atmosphere;
e. Develop or enhance, as appropriate, mechanisms to integrate transport planning strategies and
urban and regional settlement planning strategies, with a view to reducing the environmental
impacts of transport;
f. Study, within the framework of the United Nations and its regional commissions, the feasibility
of convening regional conferences on transport and the environment.
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