Reports
The costs of commuting are widespread, City leaders, transportation planners, and companies are looking to implement commuting solutions to ensure employees are happy and healthy, while simultaneously saving cities and companies money and helping the planet.
The Carbon-Free City Handbook helps city staff implement climate policies and actions that resolutely place their communities on an aggressive path toward sustainable, low-carbon economies.
In order to keep the vehicle electrification revolution moving, each U.S. state needs to begin to grapple now with how to offer a favourable regulatory landscape, develop appropriate guidance and incentives for ownership of charging infrastructure, plan for chargers that will be well-used and cost-effective, and ensure that all segments of society will have access to clean, electric transportation options.
The future of mobility is just around the corner, and Door to Downtown is an excellent example of how communities can prepare for that future today, while avoiding expensive investments that may well be outdated long before the end of their useful life.
The Future Cost of Electricity-Based Synthetic Fuels
2018
Author(s): Agora Verkehrswende, Agora Energiewende
The objective of this study is to estimate the costs associated with importing synthetic fuels up to 2050. This study provides an important contribution to the current debate about decarbonisation strategies in the heating and transport sectors.
In recent times, State Road Transport Undertakings (SRTUs) in major Indian cities are contemplating to introduce e-buses in their vehicle fleets.
Implementation Plan for Electrification of Public Bus Transport in Bengaluru
2018
Author(s): Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP)
Last year, Karnataka announced a landmark policy on electric vehicles, becoming the first Indian state to do so. Now, the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) is in the process of procuring its first fleet of 40 electric buses.
Race to Zero: European Heavy Duty Vehicle Market Development Quarterly (January – June 2024)
2024
Author(s): Ananda S, Musa A, Basma H
Analyzes manufacturers’ market readiness to develop and deploy zero-emission trucks and buses in Europe.
Green Vehicle Rating for 2 and 3 Wheelers in India
2018
Author(s): Kumar S, Yadav N, Das S, Mathew S
While traditional wisdom would count the 80% share of two and three-wheelers in India’s vehicle fleet as a hurdle in curbing vehicular energy and environmental burdens but thought otherwise, it presents an opportunity as large as the massive consumer base which is yet to be tapped with simple and open information for the bottom-up shift to cleaner and efficient vehicles.
Global Climate Action Agenda (GCAA) Transport Initiatives
2016
Author(s): SLOCAT Partnership
This report gives an overview of 15 voluntary multi-stakeholder initiatives on sustainable, low carbon transport, the manner in which they measure progress, and their alignment with the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, the UN HABITAT III outcome and the Paris Agreement.