Evaluation of Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Strategies for Interregional Travel

The warming of the Earth's temperatures due to human activities, known as anthropogenic climate change, is a threat to the environment and human health. The transportation sector is a major contributor to anthropogenic climate change, being responsible for 27 percent of all domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2003. Within this sector, urban travel has been the major focus of researchers and policymakers; to fill this gap, the proposed research focuses on interregional travel. Interregional travel emits pollutants in diverse regions, challenging current regulatory approaches and raising difficult jurisdictional issues. We seek to understand the contributions of interregional travel to transportation GHG emissions, and to develop methodologies for assessing emission reduction strategies that allow a diverse set of strategies to be compared. This study takes a multi-modal approach in that it considers both interregional line-haul travel and access to the line-haul modes, and also explores potential substitute modes. We will estimate the relationship between implementation cost and GHG emission reduction for each strategy, to allow for a ranking of GHG emission reduction strategies for interregional travel as well as an estimation of the overall cost curve for GHG emission reduction.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $55853.00
• Contract Numbers:

  NGHA1

• Sponsor Organizations:

  California Department of Transportation

  1227 O Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95843

  Department of Transportation

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Performing Organizations:

  University of California, Berkeley

  Transportation Center
  2614 Dwight Way, 2nd Floor
  Berkely, CA  United States  94720-1782
• Principal Investigators:

  Hansen, Mark

• Start Date: 20080801
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20090731
• Source Data: RiP Project 20335

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Climate change; Environmental impacts; Exhaust gases; Global warming; Greenhouse gases; Line haul; Multimodal transportation; Pollutants; Regional transportation; Strategic planning
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01464313
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: University of California Transportation Center (UCTC)
• Contract Numbers: NGHA1
• Files: UTC, RIP, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2013 2:40PM