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State, regional, county, and local governments are developing and implementing plans to ameliorate the impacts of climate change. As part of the California Air Resources Board scoping plan developed in response to Assembly Bill 32 (landmark greenhouse gas legislation), California encourages, but does not require, cities to develop jurisdictional-specific Climate Action Plans. One challenge in developing these plans is quantifying the contribution of the transport sector that each city should either take responsibility for or attempt to affect – answering this question is yet another challenge – through the plans. As local Climate Action Plans in the US and elsewhere continue to mature and new plans are initiated, efforts to more rigorously quantify and analyze city-level transportation emissions will grow in importance. This paper offers a step in that direction by proposing a methodological approach for quantifying the contribution of the transport sector that takes advantage of the analytical framework offered by activity-based travel models. By applying the proposed approach for three cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, this research illustrates the method and suggests the broad applicability for its potential uses elsewhere.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADC70(2) Climate Change

01362476

12-2117

English

23p

2012

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Air quality management; City planning; Climate change; Environmental policy; Greenhouse gases; Policy making; Strategic planning; Travel demand; Urban travel

San Francisco Bay Area

Energy; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-2117

TRIS, TRB

Feb 8 2012 5:07PM