Providing public information on transport sustainable for health and environment

Public access to the relevant information on transport-related health and environmental risks and broad dissemination of this information should be ensured at the early stages of planning. The public, NGOs, the private sector, municipalities and regions should be encouraged to participate in taking environment- and health-related transport decisions.

Provide broad public information on the environmental health impacts of transport and promote public participation in decision-making processes with relevance to transport, land use and infrastructure policies and planning.

Raise awareness of health-promoting transport and mobility, consumption and production patterns, communicating the benefits of healthy transport through public relations activities and information campaigns and the dissemination of information on transport-related health impacts to the public, important target groups and stakeholders.

It is necessary to ensure public access to health-related information on, and participation in, decision-making on transport projects, programmes, policies, plans and regulations, and ensure access to justice in these matters in accordance with the application of the provisions of the Århus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (1998).

It is necessary to develop an information, education and communication strategy to increase public awareness of the different impacts of transport on human health and to facilitate the choice of modes of transport sustainable for health and the environment.

Promote the development and application of: (a) information, education and communication campaigns, including those of international institutions, to raise the awareness among stakeholders and decision-makers of the need for transport sustainable for health and environment; (b) information campaigns targeted at groups using the least environmentally friendly modes of transport.

Provide and disseminate national and regional public information on transport's environment and health impacts, and on strategies and tools for transport sustainable for health and the environment, targeting specific population groups.

1. Providing public transport information
2. Providing public health information
3. Providing public access to environmental information
4. Integrating transport, environment and health policies

1. Undertaking public information campaigns on environmental impact of urban transportation

1. Recognizing citizen's rights in relation to the environment
2. Providing workers with information needed to participate effectively in environmental decision-making
3. Providing information about national strategies to control transboundary air pollution
4. Providing impact information for transboundary air pollution
5. Providing health information and education to vulnerable groups
6. Promoting cooperation on sustainable transport for health and environment
7. Involving local people in raising public awareness on the environment
8. Involving local communities in pollution control
9. Expanding public awareness of environmental health hazards
10. Creating appropriate transport systems
11. Assessing health and environment impacts of transport systems

1. Using school children as community focal points for environmental information
2. Transforming environmental information for different user groups
3. Providing public information on national needs for scientific and technological environmental programmes
4. Providing local communities with environmental know-how
5. Improving NGO access to data needed for research
6. Identifying vulnerable groups to transport environmental health factors
7. Ensuring full and open sharing of environmental information among scientists and decision-makers
8. Developing initiatives on electronic links to improve environmental information sharing
9. Developing environmental education material
10. Developing community-based environmental information systems
11. Convening regional conferences on transport and the environment

1. Suppressing information concerning environmental hazards
2. Limiting access to information

1. Providing public transportation

1. Suppression of information concerning environmental safety
2. Psychosocial effects of transport systems
3. Inadequate transport planning
4. Health hazards of air pollution for children
5. Environmental hazards from transport systems

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