TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2139 includes 21 papers that explore the impact of shifting to diesel-powered vehicles, estimating the fuel efficiency of road traffic, impacts of road grade on fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, fuel prices and consumer preferences for vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, hydrogen fueling, vehicle capacity and fuel consumption in household fleets, addressing climate change in transportation planning, and unequal distribution of greenhouse gas emissions from personal travel in the United Kingdom. This issue of the TRR also examines airport weather delays and the implications of climate change for future delays, trade-off between carbon dioxide emissions and logistics costs, global warming and its transportation impacts, carbon taxes as an energy conservation and emission reduction strategy, using information technology to improve railway capacity and service quality and thus prevent climate change, individual carbon dioxide emissions and potential for reduction, a carbon dioxide emissions trading scheme in German road transportation, determinants of automobile use, achieving carbon-efficient transportation, and rising gas price and transit ridership. (Author/publisher)
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