the private autos must not be allowed to stand unopposed, for it could be utilized to justify very contraindicated governmental transportation decisions. This improper representation of the greenery of urban transit buses vs. average and an auto passenger load 63% of the average, and prominently displayed the results produced by this extremely unrealistic mixture of assumptions in the first paragraph of their paper to produce maximum impact for their badly flawed hypothesis. However, researchers based at Duke University have reached a very different conclusion – but they have done so by assuming a bus passenger load over seven-and-one-half times the U.S. Which is “greener” – uses less energy and produces fewer emissions – riding in a transit bus or driving a car? While the results will vary depending on the particulars of the bus, the car, and how they are utilized, on average in the U.S., moving a passenger one mile in an auto uses less energy, and produces less emissions, per passenger-mile (one person traveling one mile) than carrying that person one mile in an urban transit bus. Part 1: A Critique of Public Transit Buses: A Green Choice Gets Greener – Adrian Moore, Vice President of Research at Reason Foundation Below, we present Tom Rubin’s critique of that report, followed by a reply from the authors, and then a final response from Tom Rubin. You can follow the link to read Public Transit Buses.
Rubin was the Controller-Treasurer of the Southern California Rapid Transit District from 1989 until 1993 and has written many research reports on transit issues. He says the Duke University team has seriously distorted their analysis and that bus transit today is not greener than driving a car. Public Transit Buses argues that bus transit dramatically reduces Green House Gas (GHG) emissions.īut Thomas Rubin, a mass transit consultant in Oakland, California, disagrees.
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Last October the Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness, an affiliate of the Social Science Research Institute at Duke University, released the latest in a series of papers on climate change issues, Public Transit Buses: A Green Choice Gets Greener, by Marcy Lowe, Bengu Aytekin and Gary Gereffi. The latest major study in this debate says yes.
Time‘s Global Warming Survival Guide says “Ride the Bus.” But does bus transit really reduce greenhouse gas emissions? The American Public Transit Association claims that public transit saves an estimated 1.4 billion gallons of gas annually, which translates into about 14 million tons of CO2.
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