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Objective

Recommendation

Key issues

Actions taken

Objective

To reduce the level of air pollution caused by emissions from motorised vehicles.

Recommendation

It is recommended that the Department of Transport monitors global developments in non-polluting, energy efficient public and private transport and provides periodic information to the community and recommendations to the Government on practical measures that apply to Tasmania.

Key issues

This information is available from Volume 2 of the last SoE Report (SDAC 1997), which can be downloaded. The final objective, final recommendation, and a summary of key management actions are detailed below.

Actions taken

There has been some progress made in addressing this recommendation on pollution from transport since the previous SoE Report (1997). This has been through the involvement of the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources in monitoring and providing relevant information to this recommendation, including the following actions:

• holding workshops on integrated land use and transport planning based on a National Austroads report;
   
• holding workshops on Measure 5.3 of the Greenhouse strategy - promoting best practice in transport and land use planning;
   
• reviewing the feasiblity of gas use in the Tasmanian bus fleet;
   
• monitoring energy and pollution profiles of rail and road freight modes; and
   
• running the Intelligent Vehicles trial and the Intelligent Access Project until Austroads took it up.