Four Strategies for Reducing Urban Transport Emissions and Improving Health: Avoid, Shift, Share and Improve

Prioritizing and Identifying Strategies to Improve Tehran’s Transport Management in for the Post-Earthquake Crisis Situation

Background and Objectives: Recent earthquakes in Tehran showed that the fear arising from that, immediately caused traffic jam which the most important consequence is delay in relief. The purpose of the present study is to prioritize and identify strategies to improve Tehran's transport management for post-earthquake crisis situations. Method: This is an applied study which has done through de...

REDUCING TRANSPORT GHG EMISSIONS Opportunities and Costs

REDUCING TRANSPORT GHG EMISSIONS Opportunities and Costs

On strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Equity is of fundamental concern in the quest for international cooperation to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations by the reduction of emissions. By modeling the carbon cycle, we estimate the global CO(2) emissions that would be required to stabilize the atmospheric concentration of CO(2) at levels ranging from 450 to 1,000 ppm. These are compared, on both an absolute and a per-capita basis...

Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport.

We used Comparative Risk Assessment methods to estimate the health effects of alternative urban land transport scenarios for two settings-London, UK, and Delhi, India. For each setting, we compared a business-as-usual 2030 projection (without policies for reduction of greenhouse gases) with alternative scenarios-lower-carbon-emission motor vehicles, increased active travel, and a combination of...