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Case
6 - Freight Transport Study 1994
Key Environmental
Outcomes or Influences
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Environmental
considerations factored into the key recommendations such
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Overnight parking |
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Container storage |
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Cross-border freight issue. |
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A
list of environmental follow-up actions identified, including
the need to tighten the control on vehicle emissions. |
Type
of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)
Environmental
assessment of the freight transport strategy for Hong Kong,
which is the world's busiest container port.
[Photo of Container Port]
Container Port
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Nature
and Scope of the Proposal
The study
was carried out in parallel with other major strategic reviews
to determine a strategy for dealing with freight transport.
Under a high growth scenario, the daily goods-vehicle trips
can go up to 2 million in year 2011.
[Photo of Cross Border Traffic]
Cross Border Traffic
Basis
of SEA Requirement
A requirement
to provide information on environmental implications in the
submissions to the highest level decision making body (the
Executive Council ) in Hong Kong.
Downstream
EIA requirements for individual projects arising from the
strategy.
Relationship
with Decision Making
An input
to formulating the freight transport strategy and the required
actions.
Alternative
Scenarios Assessed
Two future
growth scenarios up to 2011 were made to predict traffic flow.
Methods
and Techniques
A simplified
environmental appraisal based on a comprehensive set of environmental
planning standards and guidelines.
Latest
Status
Works
being implemented.
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