ABSTRACT
This chapter describes and explains significant differences between the transport policies of Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden in the period 1987-1997, focusing on the issue of environmental sustainability. The analysis of the policy-making will be based on the analytical description of the changes in transport policies and, with regard to explanations, on a number of different factors. The issue of global warming together with some other factors initiated a new cycle in transport policy around 1990 in Denmark and the Netherlands and, somewhat later, in Sweden. The new cycle began with a political reconstruction of the picture of the problems of the transport sector. The beginning of the new cycle in transport policy was marked by the introduction and formulation of a new goal in transport policy called "sustainability". The implementation of environmental sustainability as a new goal in transport policy necessitates the selection of intermediate objectives, adequate policy instruments and efficient concrete measures.
