The Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP) has just completed the first of two installments of the CCAP Transportation Emissions Guidebook: Land Use, Transit & Travel Demand Management, which helps users assess the air pollution, energy use, and greenhouse gas emissions benefits of a variety of transportation and land use policies.

Land use choices, transportation planning, and decisions on how to fund transportation all influence the costs of transportation – whether measured in dollars, time, air pollution or greenhouse gas emissions. Because state and local governments influence many of these decisions and must address these costs, the Center for Clean Air Policy is offering this guidebook as a new tool to governments, non-profits and technical experts to illustrate impacts -- and help make informed decisions -- on local transportation issues.

The guidebook includes policy overviews, success stories, and links to key models and resources. You can customize the Guidebook Emissions Calculator with local data to compare and quantify benefits from a variety of projects and policies. You will be able to answer these questions and many more:

• How much can bike lanes cut fuel expenditures in my community?
• What are the air quality benefits of smart growth policies?
• What are the potential CO2 savings from road pricing?

EPA’s Office of Atmospheric Programs and the Office of Transportation and Air Quality co-sponsored Part One of the Guidebook, "Land Use, Transit & Travel Demand Management." DOT's Center for Climate Change and Environmental Forecasting is sponsoring Part Two of the Guidebook, "Vehicle Technology and Fuels," which will be available in January 2006.

To access the guidebook online or to download the policy briefs and calculator, please visit us at www.ccap.org/trans.htm, or follow this link to go directly to the Flash-enabled site:
http://www.ccap.org/guidebook/.