A Global High Shift Scenario: Impacts And Potential For More Public Transport, Walking, And Cycling With Lower Car Use

This study looks at how changes in transport infrastructure, policy, and public transit investment would affect mobility as well as emissions from urban passenger transportation. Topics addressed by this study include climate change, environmental sustainability, urbanization and economic and social equity. Two future scenarios are explored, a baseline urban scenario and a "High Shift" scenario. The High Shift scenario envisions large numbers of urban passengers traveling via clean public transit and non-motorized transportation modes. This shift away from motor vehicle use would save over $100 trillion in public and private capital and operating costs of urban transportation and eliminate about 1.7 gigatons of carbon dioxide between now and 2050.

• Record URL:
  http://www.itdp.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/A-Global-High-Shift-Scenario_WEB1.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Institute for Transportation and Development Policy

  9 East 19th Street, 7th Floor
  New York, NY  United States  10003

  University of California, Davis

  1605 Tilia Street, Suite 100
  Davis, CA  United States  95616
• Authors:
  • Replogle, Michael A
  • Fulton, Lewis M
• Publication Date: 2014-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 35p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Automobile travel; Economic impacts; Environmental impacts; Equity; Mobility; Modal shift; Nonmotorized transportation; Policy; Pollutants; Public transit; Sustainable development; Urban transportation
• Subject Areas: Economics; Environment; Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01549016
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 29 2014 11:06AM