ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUS PLANNING PROCESS IN TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The transportation will increase in local and in regional measurements throughout in Europe. The increase of transport and traffic cannot be stopped in the coming years and this will always affect the environment. The European Union treats the relation of transportation and environment so that it manages the present and protects the future. The main principle of the community strategy is the `sustainable mobility´ which means that the transportation should play very significant role in future development but it does not cause any additional environmental damage. The main aims of this article to be pointed out those environmental planning methods and their practical engineering means in fields of maintenance and operation which are suitable to keep balance between the living world and the different transportation modes nowadays and in the far future.