Transportation and the Environment: A Review of Empirical Literature

Shanjun Li, Jianwei Xing, Lin Yang and Fan Zhang

No 9421, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: In urban areas around the world, increasing motorization and growing travel demand make theurban transportation sector an ever-greater contributor to local air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Thesituation is particularly acute in developing countries, where growing metropolitan regions suffer some of theworld’s highest levels of air pollution. Policies that seek to develop and manage this transportation sector—to meetrising demand linked to economic growth and safeguard the environment and human health—have had strikingly differentresults, with some inadvertently exacerbating the traffic and pollution they seek to mitigate. This paper provides anoverview of the findings of the recent literature on the impacts of a host of urban transportation policies used indeveloped and developing country settings. The paper identifies research challenges and future areas of study oftransportation policies, which can have important, long-lasting impacts on urban life and global climate change.

Keywords: Transport in Urban Areas; Urban Transport; Transport Services; Pollution Management & Control; Air Quality & Clean Air; Brown Issues and Health; Intelligent Transport Systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-10-05
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