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Sustainable transport is transportation sustainable in terms of their social and environmental impacts. Components for evaluating sustainability include the particular vehicles used for road, water or air transport; the source of energy ; and the infrastructure used to accommodate the transport ( roads , railways , airways , waterways , canals ...
Climate scientist Kevin Anderson raised concern about the growing effect of air transport on the climate in a paper[13] and a presentation[14] in 2008. He has pointed out that even at a reduced annual rate of increase in UK passenger air travel and with the government's targeted emissions reductions in other energy use sectors, by 2030 aviation ...
The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) is an American multinational non-profit public policy think tank and research institute that provides technical, scientific, and policy analysis to environmental regulators on issues related to environmental, energy, and transportation policy.
A companion document to the White Paper called "Smarter Choices" researched the potential to scale up the small and scattered sustainable transport initiatives then occurring across Britain, and concluded that the comprehensive application of these techniques could reduce peak period car travel in urban areas by over 20%.
Michael Replogle is an internationally recognized expert and advisor in the field of sustainable transport. [1] He co-founded the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) in 1985, a nonprofit organization that promotes environmentally sustainable and equitable transportation projects and policies worldwide, as well as Bikes Not Bombs in 1984.
A TransJakarta bus serving Corridor 2 (Harmoni-Pulo Gadung). ITDP works to encourage safe, modern, and efficient public transportation systems in cities worldwide. ITDP is currently active in a design and/or consulting capacity in the BRT programs of Ahmedabad, India; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Johannesburg, South Africa (); Jakarta, Indonesia (TransJakarta); Guangzhou, Lanzhou, and Yichang ...
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The TRID Database (Transportation Research International Documentation) is a database that combines the records from USA Transportation Research Board's Transportation Research Information Services database and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Joint Transport Research Centre's International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database.