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Template:Wikipedia p 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. [1]. 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 [2].
- 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 single-occupant vehicle, or, for short "alternative transportation," is imperative. Some alternative transportation advocates have taken to using the term 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
- Victoria Transportation Policy Institute
- Transportation Alternatives, NYC
- The World Resources Institute Center for Sustainable Transport
- International Forum for Rural Transport and Development
- Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
- Missoula Institute for Sustainable Transportation
- National Center for Transit Research at University of South Florida
Humboldt County, CA
Books
Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities by Will Toor and Spenser W. Havlick.
Policy Tools
Transportation Category at MorePerfect.org
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Subcategories
This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 total.
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- Hybrid vehicles (6)
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- OpenTripPlanner (11)
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- Transport videos (1)
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- Wheelchairs (4)
Pages in category "Transport"
The following 179 pages are in this category, out of 179 total.
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- User:Aaron
- Adjustable Bike Mirror
- Aerial Ropeways in Nepal
- Aerial Ropeways in Nepal/id
- Air powered car
- Air powered car/ja
- Air travel in academia
- Animals for transport
- Animals for transport/id
- Animals for transport/kk
- Animals for transport/sk
- Animals for transport/uz
- Animals for transport/vi
- Animals for transport/zh
- Anisotropic mechanical property variance between ASTM D638-14 type I and type IV fused filament fabricated specimens
- Anti-lock braking system
- Appropriate methods of transport
- Arcata Hostel mechanical munchy-maker
- Arcata Hostel mechanical munchy-maker/es
- Arcata Hostel mechanical munchy-maker/pt
B
- Backpack frame bike trailer
- Backpack frame bike trailer/ko
- Bicing
- Bicycle
- Bicycle (Practical Action Technical Brief)
- Bicycle Trailers (Practical Action Technical Brief)
- User:Big Russ
- Bike Pedals
- Bioalcohols as fuel
- Bioalcohols as fuel/ko
- Bioalcohols as fuel/ml
- Bioalcohols as fuel/uk
- Biodiesel
- Biodiesel/es
- Biofuel
- Biofuel/ko
- Biofuel/tr
- Boat
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- Mapnificent
- Mapumental
- Mechanical properties of 3-D printed truss-like lattice biopolymer non-stochastic structures for sandwich panels with natural fibre composite skins
- Mechanical Properties of Ultraviolet-Assisted Paste Extrusion and Postextrusion Ultraviolet-Curing of Three-Dimensional Printed Biocomposites
- Mechanical Properties of Ultraviolet-Assisted Paste Extrusion and Postextrusion Ultraviolet-Curing of Three-Dimensional Printed Biocomposites/fr
- Melbourne sustainable transport reform
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- Parking
- Parras transportation gallery
- User:PatSunter
- Personal ground vehicle
- Plant oil as fuel
- Plant oil as fuel/no
- Polymer-derived SiOC Replica of Material Extrusion-based 3-D Printed Plastics
- Public transport
- Public transport prioritisation
- Public Transport Users Association
- Public transport/ru
- Pulse jet engine
- Pulse jet engine/ar
- Pulse jet engine/ru
- Pure plant oil as fuel
- Pure plant oil as fuel/es
- Pure plant oil as fuel/he
- Pure plant oil fuel production
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- User:Saddlechariot
- Safe and Sustainable Transport Project
- Sao Paulo Transit
- Solar drying in Uganda
- Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence
- Sustainable transport
- Sustainable transport activism
- Sustainable transport activism UK
- Sustainable transport news
- Sustainable transport news/2014-2016
- Sustainable transport news/2017
- Sustainable transport news/2018
- Sustainable transport news/2019-2020
- Sustainable transport news/2021-2022
- Sustainable transport UK news
- Sustainable transport UK news/2009-2018
- Sustainable transport UK news/2019-2020
- Sustainable transport UK news/2021-2022
- Sustainable transport UK news/2023
- Sustainable transport USA
- Sustainable transport/ar
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- Tensile Strength of Commercial Polymer Materials for Fused Filament Fabrication 3-D Printing
- Tensile Strength of Commercial Polymer Materials for Fused Filament Fabrication 3-D Printing/fr
- The Amazon Conservation Association
- The Daily Commute
- Tin bicycle - design contest motivation
- TransitFeed
- TransitFeed/ja
- Transport
- Transport informatics
- Transport modeling reform
- Transport modeling reform/hy
- Transport modeling reform/zh
- Transporte de Curitiba
- Travel choices
- Trucking energy efficiency
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- Ystruder: open source multifunction extruder with sensing and monitoring capabilities
- Ystruder: open source multifunction extruder with sensing and monitoring capabilities/cs
- Ystruder: open source multifunction extruder with sensing and monitoring capabilities/fr
- Ystruder: open source multifunction extruder with sensing and monitoring capabilities/ja
- Ystruder: open source multifunction extruder with sensing and monitoring capabilities/zh