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Slowing down traffic is good for the environment

Daniel Scharf, GreenSpeed, Abingdon, Oxon OX14
10 December 2010
 

A large proportion of the letters pages in the last two issues has been devoted to speed, with a concentration on its role in road safety.

In fact, speed is one of the three fundamental components of the transport system (the others being mix and volume) and any discussion of the appropriate speeds and speed limits has to set its sights high enough to embrace the implications for fuel consumption and security of supply, carbon and other emissions, power-shift to lighter and more efficient...

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