TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1842 describes how future technologies may improve fuel consumption of heavy-duty trucks; analyzes alternative forms of automotive fuel economy standards; summarizes the New York Greenhouse Gas Task Force recommendations for reducing the impacts of transportation on global warming; and considers transitions to alternative fuels and hybrid engines for light-duty vehicles. The papers contained in this volume were among those presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in January 2003. For abstracts of some of the papers see C 33000 - C 33014.
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