Reducing Climate Impacts in the Transportation Sector; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contributors; Climate Change and Transportation; Energy Security, Climate and Your Car: Us Energy Policy and Beyond; Transport Policy and Climate Change; Factor of Two: Halving the Fuel Consumption of New U.S. Automobiles by 2035; Lead Time, Customers, and Technology: Technology Opportunities and Limits on the Rate of Deployment; Heavy Duty Vehicle Fleet Technologies for Reducing Carbon Dioxide: An Industry Perspective; Beyond Congestion: Transportation's Role in Managing Vmt for Climate Outcomes
Co2 Reduction Through Better Urban Design: Portland's StoryTransportation-Specific Challenges for Climate Policy; Are Consumers or Fuel Economy Policies Efficient?; Fuel Economy: The Case for Market Failure; Appendix A: Biographies of Editors and Authors; Appendix B: Asilomar 2007 Attendee List; Index
Summary
More than 250 experts from around the world gathered at the Asilomar Transportation and Energy Conference in August 2007 to tackle what many agree is the greatest environmental challenge the world faces: climate change. This 11th Biennial Conference, organized under the auspices of the Energy and Alternative Fuels Committees of the U.S. Transportation Research Board, examined key climate change policy issues and strategies to combat climate impacts from the transportation sector, a leading source of greenhouse gas emissions. This book includes chapters by leading presenters at the Asilomar Con
