A Transportation Research Program for Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change and Conserving

Last updated on 03 October 2014 12:14
The burning of fossil fuels to power transportation is one of the main sources of growth in greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere. Petroleum-based fuels used by almost all cars, trucks, ships, and aircraft account for 97 percent of energy use in the transportation sector (Davis et al. 2009,...
Author(s): Transportation research board of the national academies
Organisation(s): Transportation Research Board ;
2009
United States
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