Environmental Task Force

ITS America is committed to devoting its resources to one of the most important challenges currently facing our country: climate change. We believe that transportation technologies provide an immediate tool to help reduce the transportation sector’s contribution to Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in the near term, while simultaneously helping to improve the mobility, safety, and efficiency of the transportation infrastructure.  
 
To ensure that transportation planners consider environmental and climate change consequences of their decisions, the ITS America Environmental Task Force will help transportation decision-makers assess how transportation planning decisions may affect climate change and our ability to adapt to it.
 
The ITS America Environmental Task Force is comprised of executives from corporate and public sector members, ITS America staff, representatives from government agencies, and representatives from partner associations.

 

Important Links
  • American Power Act - New Climate and Energy Bill - Link
  • Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (Full Text) - PDF
  • Secretary LaHood's Testimony on the Bill - PDF
  • A Summary of the American Clean Energy Jobs and Power Jobs Bill - PDF
  • Executive Order: Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance - PDF
  • U.S. DOT Report to Congress on Climate Change - Link
    • U.S. DOT press release - Link
    • Secretary's blog - Link

Publications

  • ITS United Kingdom Carbon Working Group
    • ITS (UK) strategy to support carbon reduction and to address climate
      change issues - PDF
    • The road from Copenhagen – draft strategy for ITS (UK) to address
      Climate Change and Carbon reduction issues - PDF
  • United Nations' Millennium Project - Link
    • Goal 7 - Ensure Environmental Sustainablility - DOC
  • West Coast Corridor Coalition: Clean, Green, and Smart: Best Practices - PDF
  • Moving Cooler: Transportation Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions:
    • Executive Summary - PDF
    • Letter to ITS America Members - PDF
    • An Operations and ITS Perspective on the Moving Cooler Study by Louis G. Neudorff, Iteris, and Chair of the ITS America Sustainability Forum - DOC
    • Cover Letter to An Operations and ITS Perspective on the Moving Cooler Study by ITS America President and CEO, Scott Belcher - DOC
    • Appendices - Link
    • Briefing Presentation - PDF
    • Press Release - PDF and Quotes - PDF
    • Findings Fact Sheet - PDF
    • Order A Report - DOC
  • Kapsch TrafficCom, Inc.: Response to ITS America’s Call for Information on Innovative Technologies and Practices that Reduce Surface Transportation Energy Use and Generate Environmental Benefits - PDF
  • IBM: Driving Change in Stockholm - PDF
  • ITS America's Strategic Plan for Sustainable Transportation – PDF
  • Climate Change and Transportation – PPT

 

ITS America's Environmental Task Force Contact:  Scott Belcher, President and CEO, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
 
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