Potential greenhouse gas emission reduction from active transportation: Comparing travel behavior patterns

2025/05/26 by Yingjie Guo, Alexander Bigazzi, Alexander Y. Bigazzi +1 · 3 voices · 1 citation
Engineering · Social Sciences · #Transportation Planning and Optimization #Transportation and Mobility Innovations #Urban Transport and Accessibility

paper · doi:10.1016/j.trd.2025.104835

openalex publication_date 2025/05/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/21

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• Benefit of physical activity initiatives for climate change mitigation and adaptation

Discussions

• New study of active travel (biking/walking) & climate: "For each add'l mile of daily active travel, an individual’s GHG emissions from travel [fall] 48 % if trip lengths are allowed to change (w/a fi [bsky, 24 points, 0 comments]
• Interesting-looking new study finding that "mode shift alone represents only 1/5th of the potential GHG benefits of increasing active transportation in a way that also reduces trip lengths through des [bsky, 19 points, 2 comments]
• Each mile of walking and biking per day can lower greenhouse gas emissions by 37% to 51%. To get these numbers, researchers considered changes in how far and how often people travel when using active [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]