VD Ngo, LD Frank, AY Bigazzi - Transportation research part D: Transport …, 2018 - Elsevier
Urgent action on global climate change is necessary to avoid its most dangerous effects on human settlements and natural ecosystems within the next century. Multiple levels of …
M Kimball, M Chester, C Gino… - Journal of Planning …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
There is significant interest in reducing urban growth impacts yet little information exists to comprehensively estimate the energy and air quality tradeoffs. An integrated transportation …
P Topalovic, D Tobey, L Lotimer - 2008 - researchgate.net
Hamilton's historical roots as an electric, industrial and transportation-oriented city make a region well suited for rapid transit, especially when coupled with its growing population …
R O'Toole - Cato policy analysis, 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Far from protecting the environment, most rail transit lines use more energy per passenger mile, and many generate more greenhouse gases, than the average passenger automobile …
Recent investments in the transit sector to address greenhouse gas emissions have concentrated on purchasing efficient replacement vehicles and inducing mode shift from the …
Public transit is often touted as a'green'transportation option and a way for users to reduce their environmental footprint by avoiding automobile emissions, but that may not be the case …
R Huang, ME Kahn - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
During a time of rising concern about climate change, the urban public transit sector has not significantly reduced its carbon footprint. Using data from the nation's transit agencies over …
Providing affordable housing and reducing greenhouse gases are common goals in cities worldwide. Transit-oriented development (TOD) can provide an opportunity to make …
MT Kashifi, U Mansoor… - International Journal of …, 2022 - inderscienceonline.com
This study investigated the effect of transit leverage on vehicle kilometres of travel, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions for seven major Saudi Arabia cities with at …