Environmental impact analysis of the public transport system in the context of sustainable development

Abstract

Environmental protection is one of the first priorities in the activity of various political courts, be they national, European or global. All these organizations have set goals to limit the negative effects on the environment and to prevent their occurrence in the future. Measures to reduce noise pollution require investments, new materials, new techniques in civil and industrial construction, in machine building, rethinking processes, installations, means and traffic systems and last but not least, a civilized behavior of people among themselves. Therefore, the local community has a great role in combating noise pollution as well as other forms of pollution. It is necessary to find solutions and measures that allow for sustained action both nationally and locally by the competent authorities, in order to reduce the level of pollution due to road traffic, and to provide clean air to the inhabitants of these cities. This objective also supports the preparation of the integration of the Romanian transport system in the transport systems of the European Union, as a basic condition of our country's accession to the EU. The objective of the present research is represented by the study of the negative effects of the transport activity on the natural environment and on the society, by reviewing the existing literature, as well as by carrying out an analysis based on statistical data. DOI: https://doi.org/10.53486/9789975155618.08; CZU: [656.072:504.056]:338.23; JEL: O18; Q56