Motor Vehicle Report Driving and the Built Environment
Motor Vehicle Report Driving and the Built Environment
Driving and the Built Environment: The Effects of Compact Development on Motorized Travel, Energy Use, and CO2 Emissions -- Special Report 298 [Kindle Edition]
TRB Special Report 298: Driving and the Built Environment: Effects
of Compact Development on Motorized Travel, Energy Use, and CO2
Emissions examines the relationship between land development
patterns and vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in the United States to assess
whether petroleum use, and by extension greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions,
could be reduced by changes in the design of development patterns. The
report estimates the contributions that changes in residential and
mixed-use development patterns and transit investments could make in
reducing VMT by 2030 and 2050, and the impact this could have in meeting
future transportation-related GHG reduction goals.
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Motor Vehicle Report Driving and the Built Environment