Two steps forward and one back

摘要

The city of Edinburgh Council has published an Environment Strategy which fulfils its obligation under Agenda 21 of the Rio Earth Summit, 1992. The Council's proposals are grouped into 10 objective of which those concerning planning, the built environment and trasport are of most relevance to this conference. The Council's proposals and Action Plan incorporate and extend the moving FORWARD transport policies inherited from Lothian Regional Council which were descrbied at the first International Conference on Urban Transport held in 1995. This paper looks at proposals contained within the Action Plan, indicators and targets selected by which to judge progress in implementing the Action Plan, and the results to date in monitoring these indicators. The Lothian Structure Plan has a key objective of locating new development where the need for car travel can be reduced. The planning and buil environment sections of the Council's environment strategy therefore propose indicators which look at where new housing development is being located, and the economic health of local shopping centres. The transport strategy identifies three `headline' topics of modal slit road safety and air pollution. The paper will discuss the results of monitoring indicators for these topics on how the trends relate to the stated targets.