HC Deb 28 January 1988 vol 126 c317W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will provide details of recent assessments of the damage caused to the environment by the impact of various modes of transport, lorries, cars and other road users.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

[pursuant to his reply, 19 January 1988, c. 702]: Information on some recently published reports on various effects of traffic on the environment is as follows. I have arranged for copies of those reports (shown with an asterisk) not already in the Library to be deposited there.

  1. (1) Traffic-induced ground-borne vibrations in dwellings. TRRL Research Report 102, 1987.
  2. *(2) The effects of a simulated traffic vibration on a dwelling house. TRRL Contractor Report 44, 1987.
  3. (3) Public attitudes to drawbar goods vehicles. TRRL Research Report 108, 1987.
  4. *(4) Pollution levels near a motorway in a cutting. TRRL Paper presented at the International Symposium on Environmental Meteorology in West Germany in 1987.
  5. (5) Digest of environmental protection and water statistics. No. 9 1986, HMSO.
  6. (6) The impact of the reduction in the lead content of petrol on airborne lead concentrations in the United Kingdom from January 1986. Warren Spring Laboratory Report No. LR 633 (AP)M, 1987.