TY - JOUR
TI - The assessment of pollutants emissions within sustainable urban freight transport development: The case of Novi Sad
AU - Veličković Marko S
AU - Stojanović Djurdjica M
AU - Basarić Valentina B
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2014
VL - 18
IS - 1
SP - 307
EP - 321
PT - Article
AB - Assessment of pollutant emissions is a prerequisite for planning and  development of sustainable urban transport systems. Majority of extant  studies on sustainable urban transport is focused on pollution caused by  urban passenger transport, with marked paucity of literature on the impact of  urban freight transport. To partly bridge this gap, the paper objective is  the impact assessment of selected regulative measures, i.e. fleet renewal on  freight transport emissions. We used the case of Novi Sad to estimate the  potential impact of selected restrictive measures on the external freight  transport air pollution. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the  first studies on impact of urban freight transport on the air pollution in  the cities in the Balkan region. Several research findings are of interest.  Firstly, the analysis of particular gas emissions reveals expected overall  positive effects of the fleet renewal in most of cases. Still, the total  amount of same emissions hardly increase, so this particular measure is not  enough to reach the ambitious EU strategy goals concerned with sustainable  urban freight transport. Further, some negative impacts of restrictive  measures on gas emissions were also recorded and discussed. The observed  complex impact of restrictive measures on urban freight air pollution  indicates that urban freight transport planning and modeling requires a  comprehensive database, clear goals and higher priority of environmental  criterion in traffic planning. Our results and recommendations may be useful  for scholars, urban transport planners, policy makers and practitioners.