The objective of this preliminary air quality analysis was to assess the potential air quality benefits associated with the implementation of Providence's Metropolitan portion of Rhode Island's Incident Management Program. Specifically, the air quality analysis calculated the ozone precursor emissions (oxides of nitrogen and volatile organic compou
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This paper presents the results of an assessment of the potential for cost-effective technological changes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. transportation sector by the year 2010.
Monitoring the progress of transportation in achieving sustainability will be a complex undertaking requiring accurate and meaningful measures of all four types of indicators: Root Causes, Activity, Output, and Outcome. At present, significant areas of transportation's environmental effects are not well understood, and measures of environmental dam
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This report, written by order of the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment, forms the basis of a realistic comparison of energy-efficiency and emissions of the different passenger and freight transport modes. Text in Dutch; summary in English. Available in U.S., Canada and Mexico only. All others refer to National Institute of Publi
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Air Quality assessments for proposed Federal actions are required for compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act and other environment-related regulations and directives. This handbook is a comprehensive guide intended to assist the air quality analyst in assessing the air quality impact of Federal Aviation Administrat
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The report was written as a part of an on-going research project called "Environmental Impacts of Quantifiable Consumption Patterns." Methods, data and results form an assessment of the arable land use and some greenhouse gas emissions during part of the life-cycle of the consumed carrots and tomatoes in Sweden during 1992-1993 are presented in the
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This report has been developed to provide assistance to planners and decision makers -- public and private -- to improve the understanding of freight transportation, economic and air quality relationships, and to provide some helpful tools for identifying and testing improvement strategies. The focus of the report is on truck and rail/intermodal tr
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This report has been developed to provide assistance to planners and decision makers -- public and private -- to improve the understanding of freight transportation, economic and air quality relationships, and to provide some helpful tools for identifying and testing improvement strategies. The focus of the report is on truck and rail/intermodal tr
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United States. Department of Energy. Office of Coal, Nuclear, Electric and Alternate Fuels
1996-12-01
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This report presents the first compilation by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of information on alternatives to gasoline and diesel fuel. The purpose of the report is: 1) to provide background information on alternative transportation fuels and replacement fuels compared with gasoline and diesel fuels, and 2) to furnish preliminary esti
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The conference addressed economic and broader policy issues as well as technological perspectives. Further, focus was primarily on medium to long term aspects. The conference was primarily devoted to European issues, but papers were also addressing global aspects. The aim of the conference was to bring together economists, scientists, manufacturers
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This document presents quantitative national estimates of the magnitude of transportation's impacts on the natural environment. It is the most comprehensive compilation of environmental and transportation data to date. This document addresses all primary modes of transportation (highway, rail, aviation, and maritime transport) and all environmental
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BEA's pollution abatement and control program (PAC) is being discontinued. The estimates presented in this article are the last of the annual series. BEA is reallocating resources away from some existing programs in order to move ahead with the most urgent priorities for maintaining and improving the U.S. economic accounts—national, regional, and i
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The aim of this study has been to determine the Inventory and to propose Greenhouse gases mitigation alternatives in order to face the future development of the country in a clean environmental setting, improving in this way the Peruvian standard of life. The main objective of this executive summary is to show concisely the results of the national
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Ada County was chosen to be a part of the national Operational Test for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). ITS applies new technologies and concepts to improve transportation systems, efficiency, mobility, energy and environmental impacts, and create a viable industry.
The continued growth of highway traffic in the United States has led to unwanted urban traffic congestion as well as to noticeable urban air quality problems. These problems include emissions covered by the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) and 1991 Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), as well as carbon dioxide and related "
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United States. Department of Transportation. Maritime Administration
1994-08-01
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Efficient freight transportation systems play a positive role both in the economic life of industrialized countries and the daily lives of their citizens. These countries realize the importance of the relationship between good systems and services and their economy. However, while these transportation systems are essential to a modern society, and
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United States. Department of Energy. Office of Coal, Nuclear, Electric and Alternate Fuels
1994-06-01
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This report presents the first compilation by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of information on alternatives to gasoline and diesel fuel. The purpose of the report is: 1) to provide background information on alternative transportation fuels and replacement fuels compared with gasoline and diesel fuels, and 2) to furnish preliminary esti
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John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
1993-01-01
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In support of the Department's Strategic Planning effort in the Office of the Secretary, the Transportation Strategic Planning and Analysis staff of the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center conducted a series of eight one-day seminars during the month of December 1991 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C. and Kansas City, Mi
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The Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) Alternative Fuel Initiative and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 1991 regulations on transit bus exhaust emissions has resulted in a number of alternative fueled transit bus demonstrations. Since the chemical and physical properties for compressed natural gas (CNG) are significantly diffe
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