Sustainable Transportation

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Alternative modes of transportation, such as walking, cycling, and public transit, that are environmentally-friendly and promote sustainable and healthy lifestyles.

- "Sustainable transport refers to ways of transportation that are sustainable in terms of their social and environmental impacts."
- "Components for evaluating sustainability include the particular vehicles used for road, water or air transport; the source of energy; and the infrastructure used to accommodate the transport (roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals and terminals)."
- "Transportation sustainability is largely being measured by transportation system effectiveness and efficiency as well as the environmental and climate impacts of the system."
- "Transport systems have significant impacts on the environment, accounting for between 20% and 25% of world energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions."
- "The main source of greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union is transportation."
- "In 2019 it contributes to about 31% of global emissions and 24% of emissions in the EU."
- "In addition, up to the COVID-19 pandemic, emissions have only increased in this one sector."
- "Road transport is also a major contributor to local air pollution and smog."
- "Sustainable transport systems make a positive contribution to the environmental, social and economic sustainability of the communities they serve."
- "People quickly take up the opportunities offered by increased mobility, with poor households benefiting greatly from low carbon transport options."
- "The social costs of transport include road crashes, air pollution, physical inactivity, time taken away from the family while commuting and vulnerability to fuel price increases."
- "Many of these negative impacts fall disproportionately on those social groups who are also least likely to own and drive cars."
- "Traffic congestion imposes economic costs by wasting people's time and by slowing the delivery of goods and services."
- "But the real purpose of transport is access – to work, education, goods and services, friends and family."
- "Traditional transport planning aims to improve mobility, especially for vehicles."
- "Communities which are successfully improving the sustainability of their transport networks are doing so as part of a wider program of creating more vibrant, livable, sustainable cities."
- "The links between greenhouse gas emissions and particulate matter make low carbon transport an increasingly sustainable investment at a local level—both by reducing emission levels and thus mitigating climate change; and by improving public health through better air quality."
- "The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) estimates that each year 2.4 million premature deaths from outdoor air pollution could be avoided."
- "The term 'green mobility' also refers to clean ways of movement or sustainable transport."
- "The entire life cycle of transport systems is subject to sustainability measurement and optimization."