How We Move Matters Exploring the Connections Between New Transportation and Mobility Options and Environmental Health: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief (2021) / Chapter Skim
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How We Move Matters: Exploring the Connections Between New Transportation and Mobility Options and Environmental Health: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
How We Move Matters: Exploring the Connections Between New Transportation and Mobility Options and Environmental Health: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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The workshop How We Move Matters: Exploring the Connections Between New Transportation and Mobility Options and Environmental Health, held over three virtual sessions from July 13–21, 2021, provided a forum to discuss these developments, consider the risks and benefits, and identify opportunities to chart a healthier and more equitable mobility future. The workshop was organized by the Workshop Planning Committee on How We Move Matters as part of the Environmental Health Matters Initiative (EHMI)
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others. To explore how the evolving transportation environment could affect these tradeoffs, speakers discussed new transportation technologies, factors driving their adoption, and their economic and environmental implications.
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To navigate disruptive mobility transitions, she said it is important to cultivate strong public–private partnerships, take an open-minded approach, and plan for contingencies. Pilot testing new technologies is also essential, Frost and Roeth noted, adding that testing should be both iterative and efficient to rapidly inform decisions.
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For example, distribution centers can increase pollution and noise in an area but also increase job opportunities and access to goods for nearby communities, Conway noted. Chernicoff said that the impacts are also different at opposite ends of the supply chain, and Samaras said it is imperative to avoid locating infrastructure such as ports, airports, highways, and warehouses in areas that will concentrate pollution in marginalized neighborhoods.
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DRIVING CHANGE Participants explored the many complex factors that drive change in the transportation ecosystem, from investments by governments and companies to the role of individual behavior. Rob Henry (82 Alliance)
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"Even if everybody changed at once, we are still embedded in a system which is driving us to a certain kind of outcome." A PATH FORWARD Throughout the sessions, participants offered suggestions for informing transitions toward a more healthy and equitable mobility and transportation ecosystem. Key elements could include establishing shared visions and values, centering innovation in communities, advancing research to inform decisions, and finding the right incentives to guide positive change.
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Lowder said that scenario planning can also be a useful way to assess how specific changes could impact the overall transportation system and certain goals, while Ward noted that approaches such as life-cycle analysis can also help planners understand how technology replacements or displacements can affect key outcomes. As an example, he described how the Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy Use in Technologies (GREET)
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From a business perspective, Conway suggested that customer demands can move the needle on clean transportation much more quickly than regulations, but Roeth noted that for carriers the costs of adopting cleaner approaches are easier to quantify than the benefits, even if customers prefer cleaner transport. As such, he suggested carriers may be influenced more by articulating the quantifiable business benefits offered by electric vehicles or other technologies, such as making automation more feasible and reducing the need for expensive ventilation systems to handle emissions in warehouses.
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Addressing Acknowledge and study how the burdens and benefits of transportation systems Researchers, Research funders, equity issues are spread unequally across communities Government Share power and create meaningful pathways for priorities and solutions to arise Government, Technology devel from communities themselves opers, Researchers Adapting Adapt management and policy approaches to more creatively and nimbly identify Government, Standards-setting governance drivers and make choices bodies Revisit past policies that create barriers and may no longer be relevant in the current Government, Standards-setting context bodies Integrating Facilitate interdisciplinary and cross-sector integration in evaluating and planning Government, Industry, Research knowledge transportation and mobility options ers, Research funders Develop and share best practices and tools for assessing transportation systems and Researchers, Government, Indus options try, Standards-setting bodies Gather and share high-quality baseline data on current transportation and mobility Researchers, Government, environments Industry Pilot-test solutions before widespread deployment Researchers, Government, Industry Assessing Identify the hierarchy of needs of the targeted communities, focusing on functional Researchers, Governments needs needs rather than technological solutions Incentivize and fund community-engaged research drawing upon communities' Researchers, Research funders, lived experiences Communities Evaluating Evaluate full slate of tradeoffs, including key environmental health tradeoffs, for all Communities, Researchers, tradeoffs options Government Facilitate bidirectional exchange to elicit perspectives from communities, customers, Foundations/nongovernmen and decision makers on the potential environmental health burdens and benefits of tal organizations, Researchers, new mobility and transportation options Government Incentivizing Establish partnerships and create meaningful incentives to holistically minimize risk Government, Standards-setting holistic change and maximize benefits bodies, Communities, Industry * Actors have been inferred where attendees did not explicitly identify actors.
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Eisele, Texas A&M Transportation Institute; Beth Karlin, See Change Institute; Ysela Llort, Renaissance Planning Gary Minsavage, ExxonMobil; Rachael Nealer, Vehicle Technologies Office; U.S. Department of Energy; Philip L
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