Energy/Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Key Resources

This section describes research, documents, and reports related to sustainability. If you would like to suggest additional research, documents, or reports on this topic, please submit a short description to AASHTO (including any pertinent links) on the Share Info with AASHTO form.

AASHTO Resources and Tools
EPA Resources and Tools
FHWA and U.S. DOT Resources and Tools
- FHWA Energy and Emissions Web Page
- FHWA Infrastructure Carbon Estimator (2014)
- FHWA Gulf Coast Study website
- FHWA: A Performance-Based Approach to Addressing Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Transportation Planning (2013)
- FHWA: Handbook for Estimating Transportation Greenhouse Gases for Integration into the Planning Process (March 2013)
- FHWA Energy and Emissions Reduction Policy Analysis Tool (EERPAT) (2012)
- Feasibility and Implications of Electric Vehicle (EV) Deployment and Infrastructure Development (January 2015)
- FHWA Guidelines for the Implementation of Reduced Lighting on Roadways (6-25-14)
- FHWA Air Quality and Climate Change Highlights (monthly)
- FTA Low- or No-emission Transit Buses (Sept. 2015)
- U.S. DOT Draft 30-Year 'Framework for the Future' (Feb. 2015)
- Reference Sourcebook for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation Sources (FHWA, January 2012)
- U.S. DOT’s Energy Blueprint: Efficient Transportation for America (2012)
- Related Links (FHWA)
Transportation Research Board, NCHRP, National Academies Studies
- NCHRP Report 750: Strategic Issues Facing Transportation: Volume 5: Preparing State Transportation Agencies for an Uncertain Energy Future (5-27-14)
- Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2) Practitioners Guide to Incorporating Greenhouse Gas Emissions into the Collaborative Decision-Making Process (2013)
- NCHRP 25-25 Task 58, Methods to Address Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation Construction/Maintenance/Operations Activities, Final Report and the Greenhouse Gas Calculator for State Departments of Transportation
- Strategies For Reducing The Impacts of Surface Transportation On Global Climate Change: A Synthesis Of Policy Research And State And Local Mitigation Strategies (NCHRP 20-24(59) 2009)
- Integrated State and Local Government Policy Approaches to Transportation and Climate (NCHRP Report 08-36 (94) 2008)
- TRB Climate Change website
Other Resources and Links
- Council on Environmental Quality Guidance on Consideration of Greenhouse Gases
- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation: Opportunities in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic (Georgetown Climate Center and Cambridge Systematics, Nov. 2015)
- Transportation and Climate Initiative of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States
- National Climate Assessment Report (2014)
- National Climate Assessment Transportation Sector (2014)
- Plug-in Electric Vehicle (PEV) Action Tool (2013, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions)
- An Action Plan to Integrate Plug-in Electric Vehicles with the U.S. Electrical Grid (2012, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, AASHTO Center for Environmental Excellence)
- Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) Alternative Vehicle and Fuel Technologies Pooled Fund Initiative
- U.S. Energy Information Administration Annual Energy Outlook 2015
- Georgetown Climate Center Transportation Sector Web Page
- Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report 2014
- IPCC Working Group 3 Report: Mitigation of Climate Change (2014)

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