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4 Lessons on Increasing Transport Mitigation Ambition in China

The City Fix

Abating China’s transport sector greenhouse gas emissions, which accounted for about 11% of the world’s transport emissions in 2018, is key to meeting both national and global climate goals. In 2021, China updated its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), outlining ambitious.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The COG is the union of local governments and designated by the USDOT as the region's metropolitan planning organization for regional transportation planning and coordination. And a more expanded concept of the "sustainable mobility dates to 2018 (" Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Framework ").

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Railroad tourism as a way to promote transit: Union Pacific's Big Boy steam locomotive journey

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Valley Transit (San Jose) poster promoting transit use and transportation demand management. It is inspired by how Amtrak had National Trains Day/Weekend in the early to mid 2010s, as a promotional event.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The first proposes a "transport association" based on the German VV model, where all the local transit providers commit to integrated service, and a common schedule and fare system. They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. But it's quite impressive in two ways.

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From Waste to Energy: How Urban Waste is Powering Our Cities

Reprogramming the City

The syngas can be further processed into electricity, heat, or transportation fuels (US Department of Energy, 2020). million gallons of low-carbon transportation fuels (Fulcrum BioEnergy, 2021). One example of a gasification facility is the Fulcrum BioEnergy’s Sierra BioFuels Plant in Nevada, USA.

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Paris votes to ban electric scooters

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Paris was a pioneer when it introduced e-scooters, or trottinettes, in 2018 as the city’s authorities sought to promote non-polluting forms of urban transport. Getty Images, 2021. They almost had the appearance of a city-wide art installation – a pathos invoked by what looked like giant toys discarded here and there.

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DC's 11th Street Bridge Park project

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And these days the US Secretary of Transportation is pushing this as an environmental justice measure (" Pete Buttigieg launches $1B pilot to build racial equity in America's roads ," NPR). It's next to a freeway.