Events

Lecture: How NYC Can Cut Carbon Emissions and Stop Global Warming

Todd Litman, Executive Director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute will speak about his latest report, Win-Win Emission Reduction Strategies (pdf), which demonstrates how smart transportation strategies can achieve Kyoto emission reduction targets and help address problems such as traffic congestion, accidents and inadequate mobility for non-drivers.

By Aaron Donovan

7:24 PM EST on February 9, 2007

Todd Litman, Executive Director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute will speak about his latest report, Win-Win Emission Reduction Strategies (pdf), which demonstrates how smart transportation strategies can achieve Kyoto emission reduction targets and help address problems such as traffic congestion, accidents and inadequate mobility for non-drivers.

Litman is founder and executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative solutions to transport problems.

Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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