| Summary: | 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.
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