- Greenhouse emissions and climate change - Polluting your
environment - Your health - The infrastructure barrier - Your
children In many large cities throughout the world, residents
and administrators are realising that our reliance on cars,
particularly for single person journeys, is becoming
unsustainable. Traffic congestion and delays, the extremely high
cost of advanced road systems, air and noise pollution and our
increasing dependence on non-renewable fuels are some of the
more readily recognised reasons that people are concerned. In
addition, studies are now showing that there are serious
personal health and social consequences of high levels of car
travel. There is further concern that Australians may be
'building in' car dependency into our children, making our
problems much worse in the future. TravelSmart Australia brings
together the many community and government based programs that
are asking Australians to use alternatives to traveling in their
private car. TravelSmart programs by Commonwealth,