Sustainable Transport Development

Generaly, sustainable transport is the transport consistent with sustainability or sustainable devel-opment. lt is transport that while meets with the increasing demands of social development, com-prehensively considers and assures its own development and social system's development, andaims to realizing the long-term dynamic coordination between transport system and outer system.Sustainable transport development is the concrete application of the view of sustainable develop-ment in transport department, and it is the unify of transport sustainability and social sustainability.With the help of the theory of full costs of transport, the unsustanability of the existing transportsystem is estimated, which serves as the basis of formulating the transport environment economicpolicy The sustainable transport policy consists of pollution controling policy, accident controlingpolicy, congestion controling policy and public transport priority policy The policy should mainlydepend on economic encouraging methods, with laws as its subsiditries. Rail transport possessesdistinct sustainability in aspects of resource and environmellt. The imperfecting of transport exter-nal costs' intemalizing leads to the failing of rail transport to exert its sustainable advantaes. Theexperience and lesson of transport development in developed countries, as well as the particularsituation of our councy indicate that the impobot role of ral transport must be recognised inorder to establish sustalnable transport system in our counny Institution and technique are theessential facors influencing the sustainable transport developmellt. Institution innovation is a pre-requisite to rail transport sustainable development, and the key to road transport sustainable devel-opment lies in whether environment economic policy could stimulate technique ifmovation or not.Institution innovation is helpful in introducing compatition mechanism in transport departInent,and it ensures that the economic encouraging role of transport policy could bring into effect andfurther inspire the transport technic innovation.