Goal two: ''Limit greenhouse gas emissions from transport to sustainable levels.''
The study's supporting members argue that society's long-term goal should be to eliminate transport as a major source of GHG emissions but warn that this cannot be achieved until much later than 2030.
In addition, the members believe that ''the portfolio of technology options they are currently pursuing for vehicle fuels and powertrains will be a significant factor in achieving stabilization of CO2 emissions.''
Stabilizing CO2 emissions from transport should form part of a larger strategy of policy measures aimed at reducing GHG emissions from all major sources, the study suggests.
Goal three: ''Reduce significantly the number of transport related deaths and serious injuries worldwide.''
Programs to reduce deaths and serious injuries from road vehicle crashes should focus on at least four factors: driver behaviour, improvements in infrastructure, better technologies for crash avoidance, and injury mitigation.
Goal Four: ''Reduce transport-related noise.''
''Overall, traffic noise is not likely to decrease,'' the study notes. However, local authorities can address the increase in traffic noise through a combination of road surfaces and barriers that dampen noise, and by restricting the modification of vehicles by owners and others.
Goal Five: ''Mitigate traffic congestion.''
Congestion cannot be eliminated entirely, admits the study, but its ''effects can be lessened substantially.''
Actions aimed at relieving congestion would need to include increasing infrastructure capacity, eliminating infrastructure choke-points and making more efficient use of existing mobility systems and infrastructure.
Information Technology Systems should play a key role in enabling this, they study says.
Goal Six: ''Narrow mobility opportunity divides that inhibit inhabitants of poorest countries and economically and socially disadvantaged groups within most countries from achieving better lives.''
''This divide inhibits growth and works against the efforts of the very poorest countries and peoples to escape poverty,'' says the study. ''Sustainable mobility requires that the gap be narrowed.''
Goal Seven: ''Preserve and enhance mobility opportunities for the general populations in developed and developing countries.''
''Improved mobility opportunities for all societies -- developed and developing -- is an important pre-requisite for future economic growth as well as forming the basis of a more sustainable global mobility system based on wider access and greater affordability.''
The study therefore ''encourages the development of inexpensive motorized vehicles that are appropriate to the harsh road environments typically found in some developing countries. In urban areas, pricing strategies will be needed to encourage the effective use of existing conventional public transport systems.''




