Areas of focus in ensuring the environmental safety of motor transport

The article addresses the environmental characteristics and factors of motor transport effects on the environment. The amount of harmful substances emitted by a vehicle into the atmosphere is affected by: speed and number of decelerations and accelerations; vehicle condition, quality of repair and maintenance; traffic intensity; climatic conditions in a specific area; and urban development rate. It is shown that the areas of focus in ensuring the environmental safety of motor transport are: limitation of fleet growth; intensive development of transport infrastructure; scientific traffic management; improvement of the environmental characteristics of vehicles; improvement of vehicle maintenance and repair quality; assurance of quality and improvement of automobile operating materials. The article also presents information on environmental exposure to operating materials of vehicles. © 2020 The Authors. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the XIV International Conference 2020 SPbGASU “Organization and safety of traffic in large cities