Download or read book Driving Change Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled in California written by and published by Public Policy Instit. of CA. This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Vehicle Miles Traveled written by Tim Duane and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32) commits California to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The transportation sector is the top GHG emitter in California, contributing roughly 40 percent of all California emissions. Poor fuel efficiency and high vehicle miles traveled (VMT) are primary contributors to transportation sector GHG emissions. Meeting California's GHG emissions reduction goals requires reductions in both per-mile emissions and vehicle miles traveled. Fuel efficiency has been addressed historically by federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, and California has passed its own legislation regulating GHG emissions from vehicles. Vehicle miles traveled, however, have historically not received legislative attention, and have been growing at a much faster rate than population or the economy. There is consequently a 'VMT gap' in the current regulatory structure for GHG emissions reductions envisioned under AB 32. This Article addresses how AB 32's developing market-based GHG emissions reduction policy, allowing for carbon offsets, could interact with implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to support emissions reductions from transportation-related land use projects. Allowing carbon offsets for CEQA land use projects requires the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to acknowledge that the degree of GHG mitigation required for transportation-related land use projects is discretionary under the CEQA process; otherwise, CARB would face the legal conundrum of allowing industry to claim offset credits for mitigation considered compulsory under a separate legal statute. Carbon offsets for CEQA mitigation should be recognized as being additional to emissions reductions that would otherwise take place without offset investment dollars. This is because significant land use changes are necessary to meet California's long-term GHG reduction goals and it should be a legal priority to facilitate these changes. This outcome would be most consistent with the existing CEQA regime and would increase incentives and funding available to implement GHG emissions reductions from land use-related projects. Further, we recommend that a regional transportation authority (also known as a Metropolitan Planning Organization or MPO) - the same agency charged with modeling the impacts of future development plans on GHG emissions under recent legislation designed to address vehicle miles traveled (under SB 375) - facilitate quality offset projects and coordinate offset investment dollars for CEQA mitigation. We argue that such a carbon offset program under AB 32 will prove to be more significant than SB 375 in addressing vehicle miles traveled by promoting increased investments in transportation-related land use projects.
Download or read book Moving Cooler written by Cambridge Systematics and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Both the public and private sectors are grappling with decisions regarding policies that will lead to reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Moving Cooler analyzes and assesses the effectiveness and costs of almost 50 transportation strategies for reducing GHG emissions, as well as evaluates combinations of those strategies. The findings of this study can help decision makers coordinate and shape effective approaches to reducing GHG emissions at all levels - national, regional, and local - while also meeting broader transportation objectives." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book A Study to Evaluate the Effect of Reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions on Vehicle Miles Traveled written by Kenneth A. Small and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presents measures of the size of the rebound effect, by which improvements in fuel efficiency of vehicles may cause vehicle travel to increase."--Abstract, report documentation page.
Download or read book Local Vehicle Miles Traveled and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Policies and Programs written by Leila Nedal Ibrahim and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S City Climate Action Plans written by Russell Best and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are U.S. city climate action plans planning to reduce vehicle miles traveled? Reducing the need to drive (fewer miles and fewer trips) specifically and significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions. The urban planning profession identifies a broad portfolio of policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. What land use or planning policies have the most significant impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and addressing climate change? Thirty U.S. climate action plans are selected for this analysis. A majority of the plans in this analysis integrate public transit accessibility, distance to transit, street network and intersection design, parking or congestion management, transit-oriented or mixed-use development, destination or job accessibility, or job-housing balance planning strategies. However, most achieve only fair to poor levels of success at explicitly linking these strategies to reduced vehicle miles and emissions. Climate action plans might serve their most virtuous purpose not by becoming yet another set of policies, actions, and strategies, but by synthesizing and precisely repacking existing or future initiatives. Planners need to harness strategies that cut through the clutter. Until more climate action plans drill down on specific and significant land use choices explicitly linked to reducing vehicle miles driven, these plans are largely just codifying things that were likely to happen anyways.
Download or read book Driving Down Minnesota s Greenhouse Gas Emissions written by Matt Kane and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Driving and the Built Environment written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB Special Report 298: Driving and the Built Environment: Effects of Compact Development on Motorized Travel, Energy Use, and CO2 Emissions examines the relationship between land development patterns and vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in the United States to assess whether petroleum use, and by extension greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, could be reduced by changes in the design of development patterns. The report estimates the contributions that changes in residential and mixed-use development patterns and transit investments could make in reducing VMT by 2030 and 2050, and the impact this could have in meeting future transportation-related GHG reduction goals.
Download or read book Federal Transportation Spending and Vehicle Miles Traveled Reductions written by Andrew Nicholas Kambour and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the United States moves closer to regulating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in response to global climate change, solutions are needed that minimize the cost burden on consumers. The on-road transportation sector, which accounts for one-third of US GHG emissions, may be a likely candidate for significant reduction of GHGs. While vehicle and fuel technology increasingly limit the release of other tailpipe pollutants, transportation-based GHG emissions have continued to rise, as the number of total vehicle miles traveled (VMT) has risen. At the same time, the Federal Highway Trust Fund, the source for most Federal surface transportation spending, suffers from a substantial financial crisis. Directing transportation investment into a cost-effective means of significant VMT reduction would help alleviate pressure on the Trust Fund, as well as, abate US GHG emissions. This study looks at the potential of VMT reduction from the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) program, as a means of reducing GHG emissions with a particular focus paid to its funding of infrastructure for transportation modes, other than single-occupancy vehicles. While it was determined that VMT grew at a slower rate in metropolitan areas that received more alternative transportation funding, the findings were not significant enough to definitively state the effectiveness of CMAQ as a GHG reducing mechanism. There are two possible reasons for these findings, one practical and one statistical. The practical reason may be that the programs are so small relative to overall system expenditure that only larger programs would produce a real impact. The statistical reason may be that the funding amounts are so small relative to overall VMT that other factors dominated in the statistical regressions. However, the results also do not rule out the ability of concentrated alternative transportation spending, as in CMAQ, to influence VMT growth.
Download or read book Primer on Transportation and Climate Change written by and published by AASHTO. This book was released on 2008 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report serves as an introduction to the issue of climate change and its implications for transportation policy in the U.S. The report: Summarizes the current state of scientific knowledge concerning the causes and impacts of climate change; Provides an introduction to climate change policy issues; Discusses trends in greenhouse gas emissions from road transportation; Reviews potential measures to reduce such emissions; and Identified issues for further research.
Download or read book Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled in Chittenden County Via Modifications to the Built Environment written by Dale Ellen Azaria and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vehicle Miles Traveled ("VMT") is a, measure of how much driving a person or a population does in a given period for time. VMT per capita is widely viewed as the strongest correlate of environmental degradation and resource consumption in the transportation sector, a sector that accounts for approximately 1/3 of our greenhouse gas emissions and 1/3 ofour overall energy use.
Download or read book Driving Climate Change written by Daniel Sperling and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing global society. The debate over what to do is confounded by the uncertain relationship between increasing greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, and the impact of those changes on nature and human civilization. Driving Climate Change will provide professionals and students alike with the latest information regarding greenhouse emissions while presenting the most up-to-date techniques for reducing these emissions. It will investigate three broad strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions: 1) reducing motorized travel, 2) shifting to less energy intensive modes, and 3) changing fuel and propulsion technologies. Findings will be presented by the leaders in the field with contributions from professors, researchers, consultants and engineers at the most prominent institutions - commercial, academic and federal - dealing with environmental research and policy. Includes a comprehensive evaluation of current industrial practice Provides technologically sound and manageable techniques for engineers, scientists and designers Incorporates guidelines for a sustainable future
Download or read book Saving Oil and Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through U S Transportation Policy written by Cynthia J. Burbank and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper points out the surface transportation legislation reauthorization possibilities for reducing greenhouse gases in the United States, and decreasing the amount of greenhouse gas emissions generated through transportation in this country. Major elements addressed include vehicle miles traveled; fuels; vehicles; construction and maintenance; and system efficiency.
Download or read book Reducing Climate Impacts in the Transportation Sector written by Daniel Sperling and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 250 experts from around the world gathered at the Asilomar Transportation and Energy Conference in August 2007 to tackle what many agree is the greatest environmental challenge the world faces: climate change. This 11th Biennial Conference, organized under the auspices of the Energy and Alternative Fuels Committees of the U.S. Transportation Research Board, examined key climate change policy issues and strategies to combat climate impacts from the transportation sector, a leading source of greenhouse gas emissions. This book includes chapters by leading presenters at the Asilomar Conference that reflect the most current views of the world’s experts about a critical and rapidly evolving energy and environmental problem. The chapters in this book examine increasing worldwide emissions of greenhouse gases, uncertain oil supply, evolving climate change science, public attitudes toward climate change, and the implications for the U.S. of growth in China, India and elsewhere. They propose methods to reduce growth in vehicle travel through alternative fuel, new technologies, and land use planning. They examine the costs and the potential for greenhouse gas reduction through deployment of advanced technology and alternative fuels and propose strategies to motivate consumers to buy fuel efficient and alternative fuel vehicles, including heavy duty trucks.
Download or read book Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation Sources in Minnesota written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2007 Minnesota Next Generation Energy Act established goals for reducing statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 15% by 2015, 30% by 2025, and 80% by 2050, relative to 2005 levels. This report investigates strategies for meeting those reductions in Minnesota's transportation sector, which produces approximately 24% of total state GHG emissions. The study focuses on three types of emission-reduction strategies: those that improve vehicle fuel economy, those that reduce the number of vehicle-miles traveled, and others that decrease the carbon content of fuel. The researchers used a quantitative model to test the effectiveness of specific strategies for GHG emission reduction from transportation in Minnesota.
Download or read book Transportation Options VMT Reduction Field Scan written by Chris McCahill and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minnesota has declared ambitious climate goals aimed at significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions over the next thirty years, which it plans to accomplish partly through considerable reductions in the average vehicle miles traveled (VMT) per person. This will require close collaboration between local governments and the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT). This report presents the findings of a brief field scan conducted in early 2023 to understand relevant initiatives, opportunities, and challenges experienced by local communities throughout Minnesota. It involved a review of local plans and documents, a survey distributed among local agencies across the state, and targeted follow-up interviews. Results indicate that while many local organizations have expressed an interest in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, few focus explicitly on transportation emissions and even fewer of those see VMT reduction as a major strategy for meeting those goals. Nonetheless, there are organizations that are interested in the types of policies and investments that could reduce overall driving and help meet ambitious climate goals, often because they support local economic goals. This presents opportunities to realign VMT-reduction strategies with local needs and for MnDOT to provide local support in the form of funding, technical assistance, data resources, and additional guidance.
Download or read book Impact of Active Transportation on Reducing Or Avoiding Vehicle Miles Traveled and Greenhouse Gas Emissions written by CTC & Associates and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
