Global travel growth, estimated future needs for road infrastructure and impacts on energy demands and carbon emissions: an analysis

This article presents an analysis of future scenarios in global traffic growth. Each scenario has different travel patterns and technology adoption rates and the authors explore the consequential need for road infrastructure and the impacts on energy demands and carbon emissions at the global level.

Introductory article

The articles expose the complexity of responding to the two climate change challenges.

Evaluation to make transport "safe, clean and affordable"

This article shows how the World Bank thinks about transport policies and projects.

Social impacts of road projects and road pricing effects. Key findings

This article describes the results of an extensive report featuring road pricing schemes descriptions from over 20 countries as well as evaluations of their impacts from many of these countries.

Introductory article: new developments in the evaluation of road projects

The papers in this volume give a good insight of the broad range of tasks to be addressed by the scientific community and the responsible persons in charge in the road administrations.