Project detail Title: Towards a durable mobility: economic and spatial effects of increasing goods traffic Duration: 01/12/1996 - 30/06/2001 Researcher(s): Principal investigator:  Van de Voorde Eddy Co-principal investigator:  Meersman Hilde Co-principal investigator:  Verhetsel Ann Abstract: Goods traffic continues to play a key role in the debate on durable development. This is mainly due to the growing awareness of a number of negative effects which result from goods traffic: environmental effects, safety effects and effects on the livability of cities. The government can and must act . However, in order to act , it needs a coherent set of instruments. This project attemps to provide the basic materials for such a set of instruments.-