Pathway 4.

Energy Efficiency, Conservation, and Fuel Switching in Transportation → Transforming Transportation Demand

4.1.5 Reports on Reducing Transportation Demand Generally

7 Resources Found, Displaying 1 thru 7

California’s Sustainable Planning Best Practice Case Studies

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

The California Strategic Growth Council highlights a number of local best practices in sustainable planning.

Transportation and Climate Initiative

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments

A regional collaboration of 12 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia that seeks to improve transportation, develop the clean energy economy and reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector.

California’s UrbanFootprint tool

Jurisdiction: Local Governments, Private Entities

A web-based software platform built to help planners and policy makers determine the best scenarios and outcomes for their communities.

Report, A New Way Forward: Envisioning a Transportation System Without Carbon Pollution

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

Analyzes steps including the design of more dense, walkable communities, smart road pricing, and reallocating street space to modes other than driving.

Report, Global Transportation Energy and Climate Roadmap

Jurisdiction: Congress, States and State Governments

Analyzed different policy trajectories to meet transportation demand by using less-polluting modes and decreasing transportation activity through land use and other strategies.

DOT Report, Transportation’s Role in Reducing US Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments, Local Governments

Notes that various behavioral shifts could reduce GHG’s from transportation between 6% and 21% by 2050.

Urban Land Institute Reports: Growing Cooler, Moving Cooler

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments, Local Governments, Private Entities

Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, concluding that more compact development can decrease driving rates 20% to 40%; and Moving Cooler, which surveyed sources of potential GHG reduction from transportation.