摘要: |
The VIII Biennial Asilomar Conference on Transportation, Energy, and Environmental Policy began on September 11, 2001. We will discuss the circumstances further in the Introduction. Here we simply observe that the conference could not be convened as planned. It required several months to complete in three steps: the first, an abbreviated meeting at Asilomar on September 11 and 12, 2001; then a session at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, D.C. in January 2002 to present several papers originally scheduled for presentation at Asilomar; and, finally, several discussions to develop materials that would eventually be edited into the final chapter of these proceedings. Contents: Economics, Stewardship, and the Transportation Sector; Sustainable Urban Transportation in the 21st Century; Toward Zero Emissions for Transportation using Fossil Fuels; Is the Barrel Half Full or Half Empty. Implications of Transitioning to a New Transportation Energy Future; What Can We Learn from the Ongoing Fuels transition; A Strategy for Introducing Hydrogen into Transportation; The Market for Fuel Cell Auxiliary Power Units for Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles: First Widespread Application of Fuel Cells in Transportation; Managing the Transition to Sustainable Transport Through Strategic Niche Management; Assessment of European Initiatives to Reduce Fuel Consumption and CO2 Emissions; An Analysis of the Effects of Car and Fuel Taxes on CO2 Emissions in Japan and Germany; and Research Agenda to Support Transitions in Transportation Energy. |