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It is widely believed that environmental effects must increasingly play a dominant role in shaping the transportation systems of the future. If true, this belief has important implications because it suggests a departure from traditional means of evaluating transportation policies. Indeed, this type of argument has been used to justify projects that fail to meet traditional criteria, and furthermore to predict significant changes in personal mobility patterns as they have been shaped by the automobile era. Therefore, it is of interest to examine whether and in what form the belief is true.
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Small, K.A. (1993). Transportation and the Environment. In: Thord, R. (eds) The Future of Transportation and Communication. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78031-8_16
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