Environmental Task Force
INITIATIVE
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.
MEMBERSHIP
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.
OBJECTIVES OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE
1) Identify and, as is possible, quantify the environmental benefits of developing and deploying broadly a suite of transportation technologies that help reduce GHG emissions through efficiency gains in system operations, reduction of vehicle miles traveled, and/or use of alternative, cleaner fuels.
2) Encourage voluntary emissions reductions by developing a verification procedure to certify transportation projects as offsets that can be traded on carbon markets.
3) Support investment in technical innovation to help our members create and deploy the next generation of transportation technology that will help reduce GHG emissions and adapt our transportation system to the changing climate.
4) Educate members about eco-friendly measures for their own operations that minimize their carbon footprint.
LEADERSHIP
Chair
Larry Yermack, Telvent
Environmental Task Force Members
Keith Cole, General Motors Corporation
Ann Flemer, Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Emil Frankel
John Inglish, Utah Transit Authority
Randell H. Iwasaki, California Department of Transportation
Robert S. Jaffe, Ph.D, ConSysTec
Dick Landis, HELP, INC.
Greg McKhann, Iteris
Gary McVoy, NY Department of Transportation
Richard Mudge, Delcan Corporation
Durga Panda, Image Sensing Systems
Peter Sweatman, U. Michigan Transportation Research Institute
Mike Walton, University of Texas at Austin
Parker Williams, ACS, Inc.
Robert Yakushi, Nissan
ITS America Staff
Leslie Bellas, General Counsel/Director of Environmental Affairs
For more information, contact Leslie Bellas, General Counsel and Director of Environmental Affairs at lbellas@itsa.org or at
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN THE NEWS
- Republican Members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Challenge Global Warming Language - March 20, 2009
- EPA Proposes First National Reporting on Greenhouse Gas Emissions - March 11, 2009
- House Democrats to Produce Climate and Energy Bill - March 5, 2009
- NASA and Cisco to Develop "Planetary Skin" - March 3, 2009
- Waxman Plans to Release Draft Emissions Bill This Month - March 3, 2009
- Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Members Comment on the Role of Cap and Trade and the Budget - March 2, 2009
- Senator Boxor Holds Hearing on "The Latest Global Warming Science" - March 2, 2009
- US Department of Transportation Introduces New Climate Change Initiatives - March 2, 2009
- US Climate Action Partnership Issues "Blueprint for Legislative Action" - February 18, 2009
- Senator Boxer Announces Key Principles for Climate Change Legislation - Febrary 5, 2009
- Oregon Legislature Introduces "The Jobs and Transportation Act" - February 5, 2009
STRATEGIC PLAN FOR SUSTAINABILITY
- Strategic Plan for Sustainabile Transportation - PDF
PRESENTATIONS
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Climate Change and Transportation (Jan. 22, 2009) - PPT
DINGELL-BOUCHER BILL DOCUMENTS
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Draft Bill - PDF
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Executive Summary of Discussion Draft - PDF
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Discussion Draft Tables - PDF
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Draft Legislation Memo - PDF
DOCUMENTS
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Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Improvement Program Interim Program Guidance - PDF
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Notice of Publication of Final Guidance - DOC
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