[sustran] Win-Win Emission Reduction Strategies

[Todd Alexander Litman]

Media Notice
17 January 2007


'Win-Win Emission Reduction Strategies'
Smart transportation strategies can achieve emission reduction 
targets and provide other important economic, social and environmental benefits
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Concern over climate change has increased significantly in recent 
months. New reports have highlighted the risks and economic costs of 
climate change, prompting many jurisdictions to set greenhouse gas 
emission reduction targets and begin developing emission reduction plans.

Innovative thinking is required to identify the best transportation 
emission reduction strategies. There are many possible ways to reduce 
transport emissions. Some provide just one or two benefits, while 
others provide a variety of benefits, including congestion 
reductions, road and parking facility cost savings, consumer cost 
savings, accident reductions, improved mobility for non-drivers, and 
support for strategic land use planning objectives. More 
comprehensive analysis helps identify the strategies that provide the 
greatest total benefits to society.

The Victoria Transport Policy Institute identified more than a dozen 
"Win-Win Transportation Solutions" that provide substantial emission 
reductions in ways that help achieve other economic, social and 
environmental objectives. Win-Win Solutions are cost-effective, 
technically feasible market reforms that solve transport problems by 
increasing consumer options, removing market distortions that cause 
excessive motor vehicle travel, and creating more accessible, 
multi-modal communities.

If implemented to the degree that is economically justified, Win-Win 
Solutions can achieve the transportation component of Kyoto emission 
reduction targets while stimulating economic development and helping 
address problems such as traffic congestion, accidents and inadequate 
mobility for non-drivers.

For more information see the following VTPI reports:

"Win-Win Emission Reduction Strategies" available at 
http://www.vtpi.org/wwclimate.pdf

"Win-Win Transportation Solutions," available at 
http://www.vtpi.org/winwin.pdf.


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The Victoria Transport Policy Institute is an independent research 
organization dedicated to developing innovative and practical 
solutions to transport problems. The VTPI website 
(http://www.vtpi.org ) has many resources addressing diverse 
transport planning and policy issues.

For more information contact Todd Litman 
(<mailto:litman at vtpi.org>litman at vtpi.org )




Sincerely,
Todd Alexander Litman
Victoria Transport Policy Institute (www.vtpi.org)
litman at vtpi.org
Phone & Fax 250-360-1560
1250 Rudlin Street, Victoria, BC, V8V 3R7, CANADA
"Efficiency - Equity - Clarity"

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