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The Scenic Ride Between Rancho Santa Fe South of Del Mar Photo © Thomas H. Schindzielorz

The Coastal Act encourages transportation choices which help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Section 30253 states, “New development shall: …(4) Minimize energy consumption and vehicle miles traveled.” Section 30252 states, “The location and amount of new development should maintain and enhance public access to the coast by (1) facilitating the provision or extension of transit service, (2) providing commercial facilities within or adjoining residential development or in other areas that will minimize the use of coastal access roads, (3) providing non-automobile circulation within the development, (4) … or providing substitute means of serving the development with public transportation, (5) assuring the potential for public transit for high intensity uses such as high-rise office buildings….”

See the links below for information on transportation choices and planning regarding global warming.

• Victoria Transport Policy Institute's December 2007 report, Win-Win Emission Reduction Strategies: Smart Transportation Strategies Can Achieve Emission Reduction Targets and Provide Other Important Economic, Social and Environmental Benefits

• Victoria Transport Policy Institute's August 2006 Review of U.S. and European Regional Modeling Studies of Policies Intended to Reduce Motorized Travel, Fuel Use, and Emissions

• The California Air Resources Board's EMission FACtors (EMFAC) model is used to calculate emission rates from all motor vehicles, such as passenger cars to heavy-duty trucks, operating on highways, freeways and local roads in California.