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Developing the information needed for such
broader analyses will require a common metric
for comparing different environmental effects.
Many disciplines—economics, environmental
science, risk analysis, and medical research, for
example—would need to work together to translate
environmental impacts into dollar values.
As part of a larger effort to understand and
estimate the full costs and benefits of transportation,
researchers are working on data and
methods for costing out transportation’s environmental
impacts. Still, many conceptual,
methodological, and statistical problems must
be overcome before transportation’s full costs
and benefits can be understood quantitatively.
Appendix B describes proceedings of a conference
on this topic that BTS sponsored in July
1995. The conference addressed theoretical,
methodological, and statistical issues. It also
brought to the discussion of the full costs of
transportation a recognition of the equal importance
of transportation’s full benefits.
Over the last three decades the United States
has primarily applied a technology-based strategy
to address the environmental impacts of
transportation. So far, that approach has worked
well in several areas. In the race between impact
mitigation technology and demand for more
transportation, however, the future is uncertain.
As travel and traffic continue to grow, it
becomes increasingly important to understand
and monitor the relationships between transportation
and the environment.
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