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Urban Environmental Management

Sustainable Transportation
   Sustainable

   Transportation

Its more about accessibility and mobility, than about 'transportation'
     Sustainable transportation concerns systems, policies, and technologies. It aims for the efficient transit of goods and serivces, and sustainable freight and delivery systems. The design of vehicle-free city planning, along with pedestrian and bicycle frendly design of neighbourhoods is a critical aspect for grassroots activities, as are telework and teleconferencing.

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SUSTRAN-DISCUSS LIST:
The sustran-discuss list is an open discussion forum on "people-centred and sustainable transport". View list archives, or to subscribe, send a message to: majordomo@jca.ax.apc.org with the BODY (not subject) of the message being: subscribe sustran-discuss

In 2001, a study was done in Montréal on the environmental impacts of housing location choices: for each household choosing to reside near the Metro instead of on the periphery of the metropolitan region, there are each year:
  • 1050 fewer automobile trips;
  • 15 000 fewer kilometers travelled by car;
  • 6000 fewer kilograms of greenhouse gases;
  • 625 more transit trips; and
  • 425 more trips on foot or by bicycle.


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