Environmental Benefits Benefit/Cost Transit Slides

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Environmental BenefitsBenefit/Cost Transit Slides
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Air Pollution

• Air pollution is the most costly impact of auto
  use, but most travelers do not consider these
  costs when they choose to drive

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Air Quality

• Transit benefits air quality when it reduces auto
  use
• Experience from transit oriented development
• San Diego Uptown District 20 reduction
• Mountain View Caltran TOD 10 reduction
• Portland, OR Regional Plan 7-8 reduction

Source Parsons Brinckerhoff (various sources)
2001
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Air Quality

• Transit vehicles generate net air quality
  benefits whenever they remove three to twelve
  autos or more, from the road 
• Our project reduces air pollution costs by __

Source McCubbin and Mark Delucchi, Social Cost
of the Health Effects of Motor-Vehicle Air
Pollution, 1996
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Water Pollution

• Urban runoff is polluted
• by oil from motor vehicles 
• Well-maintained, well-
• occupied buses will generate less water
  pollution than single occupant vehicles
•  Our project reduces water pollution costs by ___

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Noise Pollution

• The costs of noise pollution vary by vehicle type
  and average travel speeds
• A bus can reduce noise, relative to cars, when it
  has as few as three passengers (depending on the
  type of road)
• Our project reduces noise pollution costs by __

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