Twentieth report : transport and the environment--developments since 1994 / Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution ; presented to Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, September 1997.

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
Date:
1997
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Credit: Twentieth report : transport and the environment--developments since 1994 / Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution ; presented to Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, September 1997. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    D.1 THE EUROPEAN AUTO/OIL PROGRAMME! The European Commission outlined the principles of the Auto/Oil Programme as follows:7 In these proposals [for emission standards to apply from 2000] the Commission shall take the following approach: — the measures shall be designed to produce effects to meet the requirements of the Community’s air quality criteria and related objectives, — an assessment of the cost effectiveness of taking each measure shall be undertaken; in this global assessment full account shall be taken, inter alia, of the contributions that: — traffic management, for example by spreading the environmental costs appropriately, — enhanced urban public transport, — new propulsion technologies (eg electric transmission), — the use of alternative fuels (eg biofuels), could make to improve air quality, — the measures shall be proportional and reasonable in the light of the intended objectives. to provide policy-makers with an objective assessment of the most cost-effective package of measures including vehicle technology, fuel quality, improved durability and non-technical measures, necessary to reduce emissions from the road transport sector to a level consistent with the attainment of the new air quality standards being developed for adoption across the European Union. a. air quality studies to predict future air quality in seven European cities and, for ozone, across the European Union (EU), and derive emission reduction targets for a range of pollutants; b. EPEFE-the European Programme on Emissions, Fuels and Engine technologies —a joint motor and oil industries research programme to investigate the effects of vehicle technology and fuel characteristics on emissions; c. a cost-effectiveness study in which the costs and emissions impact of a range of abatement techniques were collated and the most cost-effective packages of measures to meet the emission reduction targets identified. to predict the air quality in the year 2010; to compare the predicted air quality in 2010 with air quality targets; and to define emissions reduction targets where predicted air quality was worse than the target.