Transport and the Environment

Abstract

In its report, Transport and the Environment, the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution further highlighted the deep and widespread concern as to the continued increase in traffic. Road construction and the pollution caused by vehicles had become highly controversial issues (PP 1993–4). Some hundred years earlier, a balance had also been sought in the developing technologies and institutional arrangements required for capitalising on the undoubted benefits of modern communications, whilst minimising the unintended consequences for both the individual and society at large (Bagwell 1988).