Air quality values could complement noise and CO2

Andrew Price: still considerable uncertainty about the values of environmental impacts

The DfT is to commission a research project to examine whether monetary values can be placed on the air quality impacts of transport schemes.

The DfT has recently applied monetary values to the impacts of transport noise on households and to the social cost of carbon (LTT 16 Nov 06). Andrew Price, an economic adviser in the DfT's Integrated transport, economics and appraisal division, noted that the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs had published values for some pollutants...

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