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Sustainable transportation is a strategy for the flow of people and goods across the Earth that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Transportation accounted for 32.6% of US green house gas emissions in 2005.  [http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/ggrpt/carbon.html].  In addition to the widely publicized environmental consequences of driving automobiles, it is also socially and economically costly:
 
* '''Land use:''' Parking and roads use valuable land resources.
* '''Transportation equity:''' Driving, with all of its expenses, costs the average U.S. household $7,000 per year per vehicle [http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm82.htm].
* '''Economics:''' Most of the money spent on driving leaves a local economy, weakening it.
* '''Community:''' Travelers outside of their cars interact more with their physical environment and each other.
* '''Safety:''' The presence of pedestrians and cyclists make our neighborhoods safer from crime. Conversely, 42,000 Americans are killed in car accidents every year.
* '''Health:''' Increasingly, Americans are suffering from weight-related illnesses. This is partly attributable to the decline in active transportation use and availability.
 
Building and encouraging alternatives to the [[wikipedia:Single-occupant vehicle|single-occupant vehicle]], or, for short "alternative transportation," is imperative.  Some alternative transportation advocates have taken to using the term [[wikipedia:Sustainable Transportation|sustainable transportation]] instead of the previous, widely-used "alternative transportation" term to avoid sidelining their interest from the mainstream.
 
Many efficient, practical, and inexpensive sustainable transportation technologies already exist, meaning activism, policy work, and planning research is most often more crucial to developing sustainable transportation than technology development.
 
==Resources & Links==
 
===National and International Efforts & Organizations===
* [http://www.bridgestoprosperity.org Bridges to Prosperity (B2P)]
* [http://www.vtpi.org/ Victoria Transportation Policy Institute]
* [http://www.transalt.org/ Transportation Alternatives, NYC]
* [http://embarq.wri.org/en/ The World Resources Institute Center for Sustainable Transport]
* [http://ifrtd.gn.apc.org/new/ International Forum for Rural Transport and Development]
* [http://www.itdp.org/ Institute for Transportation and Development Policy]
* [http://www.strans.org/ Missoula Institute for Sustainable Transportation]
* [http://www.nctr.usf.edu/ National Center for Transit Research at University of South Florida]
* [http://www.invent.newmobility.org New Mobility Agenda]
* [http://community.acumenfund.org/group/1bpp One Bike per Person (1BpP)]
* [http://www.ourfutureplanet.org/topic-transport-travel OurFuturePlanet - Transport and Travel]
 
===Humboldt County, CA===
* [http://www.humboldt.edu/~wheels HSU Green Wheels]
* [http://www.nrsrcaa.org/humpal/ Humboldt Partnership for Active Living]
 
===Books===
[http://www.islandpress.org/books/detail.html?SKU=1-55963-656-4 Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities] by Will Toor and Spenser W. Havlick.
 
===Policy Tools===
[http://www.moreperfect.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Transportation Transportation Category at MorePerfect.org]
 
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