Methodology and examples for assessing the environmental performance of certain road traffic management measures

Abstract

The article describes the methodology for assessing the impact of road traffic management (RTM) measures on the environment and public health. As an approbation of the methodology, such measures as ban on the movement of heavy trucks, ban on the movement of cars worse than the third ecological class and organizing the movement of non-motorized transport (NMT) are considered. Assessment of these measures impact on the environment was to provide an assessment of the pollutant emissions by the transport flow, the maximum and annual average ground-level concentrations of pollutants at the adjoining territory, the traffic flow noise characteristics (TFNC) and the equivalent sound levels at the adjoining territory. These estimates formed the basis for calculating public health risk indicators. Studies have shown that the greatest efficiency can be provided by measures to organize the movement of NMT and ban on the low environmental classes’ vehicles movement. It is also shown, that in addition to the traffic flows characteristics, specific features of the territory under consideration also have a significant impact on the results.