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Presentation The Special Interest Group on Transport and the Environment was established at the WCTR Seoul in 2001. It aims at seeking for the ways to establish effective mechanisms for mitigating environmental degradation due to transport in international domain. For this following topics may be examined: a) Comparing the emission of greenhouse gas and air pollution between countries and cities b) Diagnosing urban transport and its resulting global and local environmental degradation and prescribing countermeasure policies, and developing an evaluation system of their performance. c) Providing scientific instruments for evaluation of international mechanism such as Fund for environmentally sustainable transport and the methods to collect its financial resources.
Contact : Chair: Professor Yoshitsugu Hayashi
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