Implementation of air quality management in urban areas of England - the role of transport planning

摘要

The UK is implementing a system of air quality control as set out in the UK National Air Quality Strategy (NAQS). The Air Quality Regulations (1997) gave legal weight to standards and objectives for seven pollutants, which are to be achieved by 2005. Particularly in urban areas, transport is the main contributor to all but one of these atmospheric pollutants.rnThis paper evaluates the current role and integration of transport planning within the Air Quality Management (AQM) process and assesses the extent to which air quality management has been embraced by transport planners. The paper presents results from questionnaire surveys to transport planners (at district and county level) undertaken in Spring 1998 as part of a wider survey of local authority AQM practice.