ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at air pollution issues associated with Hong Kong's transport and assesses options for expanding services and making the transport system itself less damaging to the environment. Hong Kong, as indicated in previous chapters, has already achieved much in terms of improving its transport services by making public transport widely available, affordable, and greatly utilised. In the short-term, options for environmental transport policy offer rather limited possibilities of air quality improvements through reductions in the demand for road transport services. The Transport Department has an annual inspection programme for all public service passenger vehicles and for goods vehicles over twelve years of age. The issue of making goods vehicles in Hong Kong cleaner is closely related to the matter of how to make road passenger transport cleaner, since virtually all goods vehicles in the territory are diesel.
