Project
START - Development of Strategies Designed to Avoid the Need for Road Travel
Funding origin:
European
STRIA Roadmaps:
Transport infrastructure (INF)
Transport mode:
Road
Duration:
Start date: 01/01/1998,
End date: 01/04/1999
Status: Finished
Funding details:
Overview
Background & policy context:
Road traffic demand has more than doubled over the last 25 years, and further growth is expected. This will lead to greater congestion, with associated economic and environmental costs. Calls are increasingly heard for the introduction of policies and targets for traffic reduction. Therefore, policy-makers need to know what measures are most effective, and whether their socio-economic and financial impacts are acceptable.
Objectives:
START had three main objectives:
- to quantify the impacts of measures to reduce road travel and assess the wider effects and barriers to implementation;
- to assess the extent to which travel reduction strategies may affect the financing of road infrastructure;
- to recommend an Action Plan of travel reduction policies for Europe.
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