Via Todd Graham on Twitter, here’s a chart that shows traffic projections that I can get behind: future emissions by mode in Minnesota, given some assumptions about traffic and fuel.
Here are the projected changes:
For anyone serious about climate change, thinking about mode share and transportation patterns is crucial to actually slowing our emissions growth.
It’s from a report at enviornmental-initiative.org, where they suggest policies like carbon taxes and pay-as-you-drive insurance as potential solutions