TravelMatters: Mitigating Climate Change with Sustainable Surface Transportation

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

doi:10.17226/21968

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TravelMatters: Mitigating Climate Change with Sustainable Surface Transportation

(2005)

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TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web Document 26: TravelMatters: Mitigating Climate Change with Sustainable Surface Transportation reviews TCRP Project H-21: Combating Global Warming with Sustainable Surface Transportation Policy, which created a research report (TCRP Report 93) and TravelMatters Website with information for individuals and transit agencies on the greenhouse gas reduction potential of the public transportation sector. The report also summarizes TCRP Project H-21A, which encourages better decision making by enabling transit professionals and the public to consider both the greenhouse gas and criteria air pollutant impacts of transit planning decisions.

Contributor(s): National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Transportation Research Board

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Transportation and Infrastructure — Environment

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2005. TravelMatters: Mitigating Climate Change with Sustainable Surface Transportation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/21968.

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Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-ii
Report Contents	1-3
Executive Summary	4-5
Chapter 1: Introduction and Research Approach	6-10
Chapter 2: Task 1: Criteria Pollutants and Transit	11-22
Chapter 3: Task 2: Emissions Avoided Module	23-24
Chapter 4: Task 3: Learning Center	25-31
Chapter 5: Conclusions and Suggested Research	32-34
Appendix A: TravelMatters.org Homepage	35-35
Appendix B: Criteria Pollutants Description	36-37
Appendix C: Summary of Clean Air Act Regulations Affecting Transit Agencies	38-40
Appendix D: Weather and Humidity Data	41-42
Appendix E: Relationship between TravelMatters Emission Calcluator, Mobile 6.2 Processing Core and External Databases	43-43
Appendix F: Improvement Example for Transit Planning Calculator: Input Parameters for Roadway Types	44-44
Appendix G: Electric Propulsion Transit Vehicle Indirect Emissions	45-45
Appendix H: Example of How Result of Emissions Avoided Module Could be Displayed on a Trip Planning Site	46-46
Appendix I: "How To" Language for Emissions Avoided Module	47-47
Appendix J: TravelMattters Learning Center, Travel Log	48-48
Appendix K: TravelMatters Learning Center, Comprehension Questions	49-49
Appendix L: TravelMatters Learning Center, Interactive Beginer Quiz	50-50

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