Effects of the Built Environment on Transportation: Energy Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Other Factors

Authors: Austin Brown, Laura Vimmerstedt, Christopher D. Porter, and Robert T. Dunphy

Publisher: US Department of Energy

This paper informs national policy experts and decision-makers about how changes to land use and the built environment could reduce transportation energy use, and the feasibility and possible impacts of potential federal actions (including DOE actions) to affect the built environment.

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