The options outlined in this guidebook are designed to assist you in the process of developing transport services and facilities in your countries and localities – transport that better serves people’s needs and enhances their lives while at the same time producing fewer greenhouse gas emissions. This is a new challenge, as previously improving transport generally led to increased greenhouse gases.
The challenge now is to provide transport that:
• is cheaper, more extensive and better quality
• reduces pollution, congestion, traffic accidents and other threats to health and wellbeing
• is accessible to all
• supports economic development
• reduces greenhouse emissions overall.
As you address these issues, the Guidebook can help you by:
• providing data on energy use and greenhouse gas emissions for different transport modes in different parts of the world, and showing how to calculate greenhouse savings from various policy options
• setting out in some detail fifteen sets of technologies and practices to better meet people’s transport needs while reducing greenhouse emissions
• describing how these technologies and practices can be implemented, with attention to planning, local research, consultation, governance, ownership, capacity-building and funding (from both traditional and new carbon-related funding sources)
• providing additional sources of information to enable detailed follow up