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原文传递 ASSESSMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF THE EXPECTED EU INLAND WATER TRANSPORT GROWTH: A PARTICULAR APPLICATION.

题名：	ASSESSMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF THE EXPECTED EU INLAND WATER TRANSPORT GROWTH: A PARTICULAR APPLICATION.
作者：	Alassane Ball?NDIAYE
关键词：	ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; WATER TRANSPORT GROWTH
摘要：	One of the important challenges awaiting particularly the European freight transport sector in the coming years is the implementation of a real, efficient, and environmentally friendly intermodal transport system. Presently, studies are being carried out on a European level as well as on national level to determine in what way the European inland waterway structure can be used more efficiently and can be judiciously integrated into the future intermodal transport system. Indeed, in this foreseen integrated freight transport system, the inland water transport mode is appealed to play a crucial role, what will undoubtedly induce its growth. Many studies have tackled the subject related to the growth of inland water transport, but no thorough analysis of the negative impacts, mainly environmental, of such a growth have been carried out at the European level until the project IMMUNITY (Impacts of Increased and Multiple Use of Inland Navigation and Strategies to Reduce Negative Environmental Impacts, 1997-2000). In fact, most of those studies have had so far a prevailing attention on technological, shifting cargo and information system solutions, leaving to further studies the analysis of the potential (negative) environmental impacts and ways to reduce them. How will the expected increased use of EU inland water transport affect its capacity and what will be the negative impact on the environment? This article, based on the EU research project IMMUNITY discusses a particular aspect of the above mentioned question which appears to be a key issue within the growing importance of transport management. This article is organised around two axes. The first axis provides an overview of the 'IMMUNITY' approach to the assessment of negative impacts to be expected from a growth of EU inland water transport. The second one presents an application of the above approach to the case of atmospheric pollution at the horizon 2010. It can be seen as a step toward the identification and implementation of suitable strategies and tools to tackle efficiently the potential negative impacts expected from a certain increase of inland navigation activity at and beyond the horizon 2010. It is also a contribution to the knowledge basis for policy making with respect to environment protection, a higher use of inland waterways and the establishment of a sustainable European intermodal freight transport system.
总页数：	Proceedings of the 30th PIANC-AIPCN Congress. Sydney Australia. 22-26 Sept. 2002. pp14
报告类型：	科技报告