Search Facility User Guide

Welcome to the REC’s online Search Facility.

This electronic search engine is a comprehensively designed tool containing various documents on the issues of integrating environmental concerns into transport policies. Here you can find information on both general sustainable development and specific transport- and environment-related problems.

The Search Facility comprises data covering primarily CEE countries. However, it also includes selected documents related to other countries. The search database consists of legal acts related to transport and environmental policy integration, examples of best practices and ongoing projects in this area, academic and policy research publications on transport and integration, and links to various organisations, institutions and their projects.

We have tried to make it as easy as possible to use of the Search Facility. The documents in the database are grouped according to categories, e.g. Transport Impacts or Urban Transport. Some of the categories comprise a number of related sub-categories, e.g. the Sectoral Policy Integration category contains such sub-categories as Economic Instruments, Environmental Assessment, Integrated Urban Planning and Legal Measures.

You can also perform your free search by submitting keywords (e.g. traffic, vehicle, transport policy, best practice, etc.) to the Search field.

Our initial goal is to make the Search Facility a useful and user-friendly tool. Therefore, we would strongly appreciate any of your suggestions or comments on further improvement of the engine, and on the search page in general. We would be grateful to receive your messages at the following: Grazyna Krzywkowska, Project Manager, REC (grazyna@rec.org).

Guide to Opening Zipped Files

The Search Facility contains some zipped files with html documents inside. In some cases due to set-up parameters on user Iinternet browser or operating system some problems may appear.

In order to open such files follow the instructions below:

1) After clicking on the link to a zipped file you will see a window offering you to open the file or to save it to the disc. Choose the option SAVE the file.

2) If after saving the file you can see its format (.zip), DOUBLE CLICK on it and OPEN the html-file containing inside.

3) If after saving the file you cannot see its format (.zip), RIGHT CLICK on it, choose the OPTION PROPERTIES and ADD the format name (.zip) to the file name.

4) Repeat the instructions under 2).

We wish you pleasant work and fruitful results with our Search Facility.