Reducing Climate Impacts in the Transportation Sector

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cannon, James S. (Editor), Sperling, Daniel. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Life sciences.; Renewable energy sources.; Engineering economy.; Climatic changes.; Environmental management.; Environment.; Climate Change.; Environmental Management.; Energy Economics.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6979-6

More than 250 experts from around the world gathered at the Asilomar Transportation and Energy Conference in August 2007 to tackle what many agree is the greatest environmental challenge the world faces: climate change. This 11th Biennial Conference, organized under the auspices of the Energy and Al...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Overview of transportation, energy, climatic change trends
• Travel demand, infrastructure and urban form
• Technologies and fuels
• Vehicle purchase behavior
• GHG and energy policy instruments: cost, efficiency, politics
• Conclusions: towards regional and national policy.