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A rideshare is a trip take by two or more people sharing one vehicle to a common destination. Carpooling involves the use of a personal vehicle to transport two or more people within a neighborhood, often with a shared responsibility of driving and transportation expenses.
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2025-01-01
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Traffic congestion can mean increased travel times, higher incident rates due to stop-and-go conditions, poor air quality, and impacts to trucking and higher cost of goods. Road pricing programs involve charging drivers a toll to drive on busy roads to alleviate traffic congestion and reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.
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2025-01-01
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Truck deliveries during peak periods can worsen traffic congestion, which can lead to idling, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and air pollution. Curb-side deliveries require that drivers spend time searching for parking (increasing vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and emissions) and when nearby parking is not available, drivers may be forced to par
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United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Secretary of Transportation. Climate Change Center
2025-01-01
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Transit system integration offers efficient services to users by linking infrastructure, operators, and transport modes. Better integrated transport systems can make public transit, walking, and biking more accessible and user-friendly and reduce dependence on a household vehicle.
United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Secretary of Transportation. Climate Change Center
2025-01-01
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ITS technologies, including connected vehicles (CV) and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technologies, can improve transportation system efficiency, mobility, and safety by integrating advanced information and communications-based technologies into transportation infrastructure and vehicles. Examples of ITS technologies include adaptive signal control,
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United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Secretary of Transportation. Climate Change Center
2025-01-01
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Boosting public transit ridership can directly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by displacing trips made by single-occupancy vehicles. Public transit expansion includes both system expansion, such as building an entirely new light rail or bus rapid transit line, or service expansion, such as increased frequency or extended service hours for an
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United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Secretary of Transportation. Climate Change Center
2025-01-01
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Transit agencies nationwide are exploring the expansion of free- and reduced-fare programs to bolster ridership and public transit affordability, with an eye toward reducing vehicle miles traveled (VMT). Fare-free policies and programs represent a proactive approach to transit accessibility. Benefits of this strategy include improved operational ef
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United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Secretary of Transportation. Climate Change Center
2025-01-01
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Shared micromobility is defined as small, lightweight human-powered or electric vehicles operated at low speeds, such as docked and dockless e-scooters and bikeshare systems. According to the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) (2024), people in the United States took more than 133 million trips on shared bikes and e-scoot
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2025-01-01
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Many employers offer pre-tax commuter benefits as part of an employee’s compensatory package to provide cost savings and support recruitment and retention efforts. Commuter benefits can support transportation decarbonization goals by providing financial benefits to employees that walk, bike, or take public transit.
To address the large environmental impact of the transportation sector, opportunities for mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must be identified. After direct emissions from locomotives, rail ties are the second largest source of lifecycle railway GHG emissions. To better understand these impacts, this research qualitatively evaluated the env
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The Action Plan for Rail Energy and Emissions Innovation proposes actions to reduce and nearly eliminate emissions in the U.S. rail sector, in line with the U.S. economy-wide goal of net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. It also proposes actions to leverage the rail system to reduce emissions from other modes. The national goal of achiev
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The Action Plan for Maritime Energy and Emissions Innovation (the action plan) lays out a strategy to reduce and eliminate nearly all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the U.S. maritime sector by 2050, in line with the U.S. economy-wide goal of net-zero GHG emissions by 2050. To reach this goal, the action plan outlines actions, objectives, targets
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The Transit Bus Electrification Tool is a Microsoft Excel-based spreadsheet tool that allows users to estimate the partial lifecycle greenhouse gas emission savings associated with replacing standard bus fleets with low-emission or zero-emission transit buses.
On November 9, 2021, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg announced the 2021 United States Aviation Climate Action Plan (2021 Action Plan). The 2021 Action Plan laid out a whole-of-government approach to achieve a goal of net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the U.S. aviation sector1 by 2050 (2050 goal). In addition to serving as the
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Transit-oriented development connects neighborhoods and communities with equitable and accessible public transit and multimodal transportation options, reducing trip distances, vehicle miles traveled, and associated greenhouse gas emissions.
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While increasing roadway capacity by adding lanes may reduce congestion in the short term, highway infrastructure capacity expansions typically increase demand in the long term. Accurate travel demand modelling is better able to capture demand for vehicle miles that is induced by expanded roadway capacity and limited alternative transportation opti
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The Action Plan for Maritime Energy and Emissions Innovation (the action plan) lays out a strategy to reduce and eliminate nearly all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the U.S. maritime sector by 2050, in line with the U.S. economy-wide goal of net-zero GHG emissions by 2050. To reach this goal, the action plan outlines actions, objectives, targets
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The Action Plan for Rail Energy and Emissions Innovation proposes actions to reduce and nearly eliminate emissions in the U.S. rail sector, in line with the U.S. economy-wide goal of net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. It also proposes actions to leverage the rail system to reduce emissions from other modes. The national goal of achiev
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The purpose of this Action Plan is to identify actions under the Efficiency strategy to realize the goal of decarbonizing the transportation sector by 2050. This plan describes actions that all levels of government and the private sector can take to reduce the energy intensity of travel. The federal agencies that developed this plan can have a majo
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A Report on Actions for Medium – and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Energy and Emissions Innovation (the MHDV Plan) summarizes strategies and actions to substantially reduce emissions in the U.S. commercial on-road medium- and heavy-duty vehicle (MHDV) sector. This includes all on-road vehicles over 8,500 pounds used for commercial purposes. The intended audie
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