Transportation efficiency: Reducing the impact of mobility
Transportation efficiency changes technology or systems to reduce carbon dioxide emissions while maintaining the same or higher mobility. Transportation efficiency projects can also reduce demand for mobility by changing development patterns to minimize the need for long-distance mobility while still providing the same services.
There are three essential components to reducing transportation emissions: increasing the use of renewable fuels to power our transportation system, increasing the efficiency of the vehicles which use these fuels, and reducing the number of miles these vehicles travel.
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Truck Stop Electrification
Traffic Signals Optimization
Internet-Based Carpool Matching
Transportation accounted for nearly 30 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions in the United States in 2006, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Transportation is also the largest end-use source of carbon dioxide, which is the most prevalent greenhouse gas, the EPA reports. These estimates of transportation-related emissions do not include emissions from related processes such as extraction and refining of fuel and the manufacture of vehicles, which are also significant sources of global emissions.
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