Driving California’s Transportation Emissions to Zero

Austin L. Brown, Daniel Sperling, Bernadette Austin, DeShazo, JR, Lew Fulton, Timothy Lipman, Colin W Murphy, Jean Daniel Saphores, Gil Tal, Carolyn Abrams, Debapriya Chakraborty, Daniel Coffee, Sina Dabag, Adam Davis, Mark A Delucchi, Kelly L Fleming, Kate Forest, Juan Carlos Garcia Sanchez, Susan Handy, Michael Hyland, Alan Jenn, Seth Karten, Blake Lane, Michael Mackinnon, Elliot Martin, Marshall Miller, Monica Ramirez-Ibarra, Stephen Ritchie, Sara Schremmer, Joshua Segui, Susan Shaheen, Andre Tok, Aditya Voleti, Julie Witcover and Allison Yang

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Abstract: The purpose of this report is to provide a research-driven analysis of options that can put California on a pathway to achieve carbon-neutral transportation by 2045. The report comprises thirteen sections. Section 1 provides an overview of the major components of transportation systems and how those components interact. Section 2 discusses the impacts the COVID-19 pandemic has had on transportation. Section 3 discusses California’s current transportation-policy landscape. These three sections were previously published as a synthesis report. Section 4 analyzes the different carbon scenarios, focusing on “business as usual” (BAU) and Low Carbon (LC1). Section 5 provides an overview of key policy mechanisms to utilize in decarbonizing transportation. Section 6 is an analysis of the light-duty vehicle sector, section 7 is the medium- and heavy-duty vehicle sectors, section 8 is reducing and electrifying vehicle miles traveled, and section 9 is an analysis of transportation fuels and their lifecycle. The following sections are an analysis of external costs and benefits: section 10 analyzes the health impacts of decarbonizing transportation, section 11 analyzes equity and environmental justice, and section 12 analyzes workforce and labor impacts. Finally, future research needs are provided in section 13. The study overall finds that cost-effective pathways to carbon-neutral transportation in California exist, but that they will require significant acceleration in a wide variety of policies.

Keywords: Engineering; Greenhouse gases; carbon emissions; decarbonization; transportationpolicy; environmental policy; policy analysis; trucks; vehicle miles of travel; social equity; environmental justice; alternate fuels; labor force (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-04-01
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