Potential Energy Savings and Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Transportation
This project, funded by the Transportation Research Board, will estimate the potential energy savings and greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions that might be realized from transportation. All GHG emissions resulting from transportation will be included. It will review policies and strategies to affect behavior and improve fuel economy for passenger and freight vehicles across all modes. Analysis of alternative fuels will include the full fuel cycle. Scenarios will be developed to illustrate potential savings over a 25-50 year time horizon for the United States. Safety, economic, transportation finance, and environmental trade-offs of energy-saving measures will be included in the analysis. The committee will only address changes in GHG emissions -- not the consequences on climate change of the strategies it examines. Economic consequences will be limited to estimates of direct costs - not including macroeconomic effects. The committee will not recommend any particular strategy; rather it will provide guidance on the energy and GHG reduction benefits of various approaches and pros and cons of implementing such policies. Although the report will describe world-wide transportation demand, the analysis of energy-saving and GHG-reducing strategies will focus on measures the United States can implement.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
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Contract Numbers:
SASP-I--07-03-A
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Sponsor Organizations:
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC United States 20001 -
Performing Organizations:
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC United States 20001 -
Principal Investigators:
Menzies, Tom
- Start Date: 20070801
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 20090331
- Source Data: RiP Project 15224
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Energy conservation; Energy consumption; Fuel conservation; Greenhouse effect; Greenhouse gases; Passenger vehicles; Pollutants; Research projects; Trucks
- Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Public Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01460114
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
- Contract Numbers: SASP-I--07-03-A
- Files: RiP
- Created Date: Jan 3 2013 1:18PM