This book identifies reforms that can help manage environmental priority problems associated with transport's impacts on air quality, noise pollution, road safety, hazardous-materials transport, climate change, and urban sprawl. The policy options are contextualised in light of the Government of Pakistan's 2011 Framework for Economic Growth and its strategic objectives. Appendixes A-D present additional background information, describe the economic and institutional analyses undergirding this report, and detail the report's methodology.

This analytical work by a team of World Bank specialists focuses on:

analysing the policy and institutional adjustments required to address environmental, social, and poverty aspects of increased transportation efficiency in Pakistan;
identifying policy options for the Government of Pakistan to better serve the population, to enhance social cohesion, and to foster equitable benefit sharing with low-income or other vulnerable groups;
developing a broad participatory process to give a voice to stakeholders who could be affected by enhancements of freight transport productivity;
making robust recommendations to strengthen governance and the institutional capacity of agencies to manage the environmental, social, and poverty consequences of freight transportation infrastructure.