Obama Administration Proposes Greenhouse Gas Measurements for Transportation Projects
The Obama Administration on April 22 proposed new performance measures that recipients of federal transportation dollars — mostly states, cities, and metropolitan planning areas — will use to weigh progress in addressing traffic congestion, including a first-ever proposal to measure greenhouse gas emissions.
The proposal is designed to make state and regional infrastructure planners account for climate impacts to encourage “smarter” transportation planning strategies, such as mass transit and electric vehicles, while discouraging sprawl-inducing exurban road projects.
The proposal would require states to “evaluate and report more effectively and consistently on transportation system performance, including travel time reliability, delay hour, peak-hour congestion, freight movement and on-road mobile source emissions.”
The potential establishment of a performance measure for greenhouse gas emissions caught many in the transportation community by surprise, generating a flurry of criticism from groups who say it goes beyond the scope of the Congressional mandate in MAP-21, the highway bill passed in 2012, and will hinder transportation projects.
Subscribe to Updates
The 黑料社区Foundation and 黑料社区provide a breadth of information created to strengthen travel plazas鈥� ability to meet the needs of the traveling public in an age of disruption. This includes knowledge filled blog posts, articles and publications. If you would like to receive a digest of blog post and articles directly in your inbox, please provide your name, email and the frequency of the updates you want to receive the email digest.
