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Incentives and regulations can: reduce carbon pollution. get people to use more efficient modes of transport, such as rail and marine. encourage the use of new technologies. Pollution should be reduced in all modes of transportation, using options such as alternative fuels and electric power.
Transportation’s environmental impacts. From urban sprawl and gridlock to air pollution from high-flying jets, the transportation choices we make every day affect the environment. Significant environmental effects result from the use of fossil fuels.
May 29, 2023 · With a spatially explicit monocentric urban economic model, this study analyses the impact of four representative policies to mitigate transport greenhouse gas emissions across 120 cities...
- The Issue of Transport and the Environment. The issue of transportation and the environment is paradoxical since transportation conveys substantial socioeconomic benefits, but at the same time, transportation is impacting environmental systems.
- The Transport – Environment Link. a. Contemporary evolution. The relationships between transport and the environment are multidimensional. Some aspects are unknown, and some new findings may lead to changes in environmental policies.
- Environmental Dimensions. Transportation activities support increasing mobility demands for passengers and freight, notably in urban areas. But transport activities have resulted in growing levels of motorization and congestion.
- Environmental Externalities. Externalities are an economic concept that refers to the activities of a subset having consequences, positive or negative, intended or unintended, on other groups.
- Air. Over 1,400 air carriers operating in, or to and from Canada in 2018 (41% Canadian, 59% international) Nearly 37,000 Canadian registered aircraft and close to 55,000 licensed pilots.
- Rail. Four Class I railways. 41,465 route-kilometres of railway track: Canadian National (CN) owns 52.8% (21,879 km) Canadian Pacific (CP) owns 30.7% (12,709 km)
- Marine. Over 42,000 active registered commercial vessels, including 6,100 active tugs and barges operating in Canada. Close to 20,000 registered pleasure craft.
- Road. Most dominant mode for moving freight and passengers in Canada. Nearly 25 million road vehicles registered in Canada. More than 1.1 million two-lane equivalent lane-kilometres of public road.
Jul 1, 2020 · Better urban and transport planning can lead to carbon neutral, more liveable and healthier cities, particularly through land use changes, a move from private motorised transportation to public and active transportation and greening of cities.
Apr 24, 2023 · We introduce the Urban Transport Policy Model (UTPM) for passenger car fleets and use London as an urban case study to show that current policies are insufficient to meet climate targets.
