Big Benefits from Small Modes
With a little help and encouragement, active and micro modes, including walking, bicycling, scooters, e-bikes, and their variants, can provide huge benefits.
Todd Litman | February 22, 2021, 7am PST Share
According to the
National Household Travel Survey approximately 12% of total personal trips in the United States are currently made by active modes, but with appropriate facility improvements and incentives, active and micro mode shares could be much higher and significantly reduce automobile travel.
According to the study, Active Transportation Transforms America: The Case for Increased Public Investment in Walking and Biking Connectivity, approximately a quarter of all personal trips in the United States are one mile or less, suitable for a walk; half of all vehicle trips are three miles or less, suitable for a bike ride; and most trips are less than five miles, suitable for an e-bike ride. Similarly, a major academic study, A Global
by Corey Lavinsky and Zane McDonald (S&P Global Platts) US Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule to modify the label requirements for gasoline blended with 15% ethanol; EPA’s proposed mock-up labels are less likely to dissuade a customer from using the blend; E15 grew sharply during President Trump’s tenure, supported by several government and private initiatives
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In President Trump’s final week in office, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a rule to either modify the label requirement for E15 on fuel dispensers or eliminate it entirely.
The agency cited suggestions from biofuel groups that “the existing E15 label is no longer necessary and simply interferes with additional growth of E15 in the marketplace” and that changing the color and language on the label “would increase lawful use” of the fuel. Right now, a bright orange label is used, warning consumers in various-sized fonts to only use the fuel in certain vehicles and no
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A refinery in the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The city, already a trading hub for a host of commodities, could become the center of Europe s hydrogen economy.
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Part 2: Europe vies for pole position in global race to hydrogen economy
Part 3: Facing uncertain future, gas operators look to hydrogen lifeline
Part 4: Hydrogen finance maturing from day trading to M&A
Part 5: This is lift-off for green hydrogen, says veteran British engineer
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This is the second of a five-part series exploring the burgeoning hydrogen economy and its rise after decades of false dawns to the top of the energy agenda in 2020.