TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION
OECD International Conference, Vancouver Canada, 24-27 March 1996

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Session 2B

Barriers and Roadblocks

This session will identify the ways in which policy decisions about transportation and the environment are taken and identify the economic, technological, and political barriers to the pursuit of sustainable transportation visions.

Co-Chairs:

• G. Victor Buxton, Transboundary Air Issues, Environment Canada
  
• Francisco Fernandez Lafuente, Secretary of State for Territorial Policy and Public Works, Spain

• Eric Britton, EcoPlan International, France
  
• Michael Replogle, Environmental Defense Fund, U.S.A.
  
• John Adams, University College London, England
  
• Lars Hansson, University of Lund, Sweden

Rapporteurs:

• Grant McVicar, Manitoba Energy and Mines, Canada
  
• David Miles, European Commission, Belgium
  

Discussion from the floor

Presentation Abstracts:

• Michael Replogle, Overcoming Barriers to Market-Based Transportation Reform
• Lars Hansson, Towards Sustainable Transportation: Going From Mere Words to Practice
• John Adams, Sustainable Transport: The Technology Fix
• Eric Britton, Sustainable Transportation as a Dead End: One Barrier Less

Rapporteurs' report and ongoing discussion of session topic(s).

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