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Common Methodology for Multi-Modal Transport Environmental Impact Assessment

Project

COMMUTE - Common Methodology for Multi-Modal Transport Environmental Impact Assessment

Funding origin:
European
European Union
STRIA Roadmaps:
Transport infrastructure (INF)
Transport infrastructure
Transport mode:
Multimodal
Multimodal
Duration:
Start date: 01/04/1996,
End date: 01/06/1999
Status: Finished
Funding details:
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Overview

Background & policy context:

The guidelines for the development of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) require the development of methods for strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of the network and individual corridors (Decision 1692/96/EC). This is to ensure that the full environmental impacts of the policy initiative are assessed, and not just the impacts of individual sections of infrastructure. In response, the Commission co-ordinated a number of research actions to perform a pilot SEA of the TEN-T.

Objectives:

COMMUTE had three main objectives, to:

  • define a methodology for strategic assessment of the environmental impacts of transport policy options;
  • develop software embodying the main quantitative elements of the methodology;
  • test the methodology and software in the context of a pilot SEA of the plans for the TEN-T.

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