2000年的城市公共汽车：有利于环境保护的传动装置

City Buses in the Year 2000: Drivelines for a Better Environment

随着交通密度的日益增长和环境意识的逐渐提高需要合适的交通政策来保护我们长期的生活质量，而这样的政策无疑是实现我们经济繁荣的基础。通过政策使得公共运输更富有吸引力，合理的限制私人交通工具，至一个经济所需的水平，这样才能说服更多的有要求使用私人交通工具的大众转向用公共汽车、电车和火车。公共汽车的性能和舒适性必须与商业的等级水平相匹配──我们的有些公共运输今天还不太适应。公共交通必须有一定的吸引力，使得它的运用成为一个具体的事实。零部件生产者和汽车工业己有了不少设想与设备。在政府对实际运输政策的支持下，我们理应进行下一步工作。

Appropriatc traffic policies arc necessary to respond to the increasing density of traffic and growing environmental awareness for the need to safeguard our long-term quality of life. But such policies should not call into question the basis of our economic prosperity.Yet by making public transport more attractive, and rationally limiting private transport to a level necessary for the economy, we have a chance of persuading even the most demanding members of the public to make the switch to buses, trams and the railways.Performance and comfort will have to match Business Class standards-something our public transport systems fall well short of today.They must be made so attractive that it becomes the 'in thing' to use public transport.Component manufacturers and the automotive industry already have the ideas and the equipment. It is up to all of us, supported by practical transport policies from government, to take the next steps.