Potentials for Sustainable Transportation in Cities to Alleviate Climate Change Impacts

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• 作者：Yeganeh Mashayekh ; Paulina Jaramillo ; Constantine Samaras ; Chris T. Hendrickson ; Michael Blackhurst ; Heather L. MacLean ; H. Scott Matthews
• 刊名：Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T)
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：March 6, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：46
• 期：5
• 页码：2529-2537
• 全文大小：328K
• 年卷期：v.46,no.5(March 6, 2012)
• ISSN：1520-5851

文摘

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) is an important social goal to mitigate climate change. A common mitigation paradigm is to consider strategy 鈥渨edges鈥?that can be applied to different activities to achieve desired GHG reductions. In this policy analysis piece, we consider a wide range of possible strategies to reduce light-duty vehicle GHG emissions, including fuel and vehicle options, low carbon and renewable power, travel demand management and land use changes. We conclude that no one strategy will be sufficient to meet GHG emissions reduction goals to avoid climate change. However, many of these changes have positive combinatorial effects, so the best strategy is to pursue combinations of transportation GHG reduction strategies to meet reduction goals. Agencies need to broaden their agendas to incorporate such combination in their planning.