Moving Cooler
An Analysis of Transportation Strategies
Two recent studies have taken a look at transportation and climate change issues: the 2007 McKinsey & Company and Conference Board report, Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How Much at What Cost? and Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, published by the Urban Land Institute in 2008. Respectively, these studies offer insight into the potential effects that strategies related to advances in technology and fuels have on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and how land-use strategies affect emissions through changes in travel behavior. To date, little research has taken a critical look at the full range of transportation measures that would influence greenhouse gas emissions, by reducing the amount of vehicle-miles traveled, reducing fuel consumption, and improving the performance of the transportation system. Moving Cooler is an effort to fill this knowledge gap.