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Creating Growth, Cutting Carbon: Making Sustainable Local Transport Happen
UK Department of Transport http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/regional/sustainabletransport/pdf/whitepaper.pdf [From publication website] The Local Transport White Paper sets out the Government’s vision for a...
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Driving Change: Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled in California
Public Policy Institute of California / by Louise Bedsworth, Ellen Hanak, and Jed Kolko http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=948 Can Californians cut down on their driving? Encouraging job growth...
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Saving Oil and Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions through U.S. Federal...
Pew Center for Global Climate Change / by Cynthia J. Burbank and Nick Nigro http://tinyurl.com/476cb2q [Executive Summary] The United States consumes over 10 million barrels of oil per day moving...
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The U.S. Rural Population and Scheduled Intercity Transportation in 2010: A...
US Bureau of Transportation Statistics http://tinyurl.com/68c3xj8 Between 2005 and 2010, 3.5 million rural residents lost access to scheduled intercity transportation, increasing the percent of rural...
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Potential Impact of Gasoline Price Increases on U.S. Public Transportation...
American Public Transportation Association http://tinyurl.com/6x73tp6 [From Executive Summary] Experience over the past decade, backed by several notable research studies, shows that price increases in...
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Sustainable Mobility in African Cities
United Nations Human Settlements Programme | The International Association of Public Transport http://www.unhabitat.org/pmss/getElectronicVersion.aspx?nr=3082&alt=1 This report is the summary of...
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Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America
Brookings Institution / by Adie Tomer, Elizabeth Kneebone, Robert Puentes, and Alan Berube http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2011/0512_jobs_and_transit Against the backdrop of rising gas prices, growing...
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Takings Issue Raised by Draft Discussion of Amtrak Bill
Congressional Research Service CRS-Amtrak (CRS memorandum attached) [From an article in The Hill by Keith Laing] The Congressional Research Service said this week that the House Republican plan to...
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Impacts of the Recession on Public Transportation Agencies: 2011 Update
American Public Transportation Association http://bit.ly/qbvjpU [From Executive Summary] The survey found: 71 percent of public transportation agencies saw flat or decreased local funding, and 83...
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A Tale of Renewed Cities: a Policy Guide on How to Transform Cities by...
International Energy Agency http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/Renewed_Cities_WEB.pdf [Business Green] The global economy could save up to $70tr over the next 40 years by...
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Carbon Price Efficiency: Lock-in and Path Dependence in Urban Forms and...
World Bank / by Paolo Avner, Jun Rentschler, and Stéphane Hallegatte http://bit.ly/1pUbiQe This paper investigates the effect of carbon or gasoline taxes on commuting-related CO2 emissions in an urban...
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A Global High Shift Scenario: Impacts And Potential For More Public...
Univ. of California Davis | Institute for Transportation and Development Policy / by Michael A. Replogle and Lewis M. Fulton...
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Valuing Convenience in Public Transport
OECD (This fee-based document available through OECD iLibrary — RFFers see the library landing page for credentials if prompted for a password) http://bit.ly/1LsUfj8 The experience of transport systems...
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Advanced Clean Transit Proposal for May 2015 Workshops [Discussion Document]
California Air Resources Board http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/bus/actdiscussiondocument.pdf [Green Car Congress] The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has posted a discussion document for upcoming...
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The Effect of Metro Expansions on Air Pollution in Delhi
World Bank / by Deepti Goel and Sonam Gupta http://bit.ly/1HWNC7y The Delhi Metro (DM) is a mass rapid transit system serving the National Capital Region of India. It is also the world’s first rail...
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Fixing the Foul Play: Mitigating the Environmental and Public Health Damage...
Center for American Progress / by By Greg Dotson, Alison Cassady, Myriam Alexander-Kearns http://ampr.gs/1ZJ9AEV [Politico’s Morning Energy — email] The Center for American Progress is out today with a...
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