How can sustainable development be applied to transport?
By making mobility of people and goods less damaging to the natural environment. This means avoiding unnecessary journeys, reducing dependency on the car and improving public transport. A very high proportion of car journeys are less than 5 miles, many are less than 3 miles, and car travel could be reduced if more people walked or rode bicycles, if more car sharing was arranged and the telephone or the Internet was used instead of some journeys. Likewise more people and goods could be carried by public transport if regularity and reliability was improved and it was more cost-effective.
