Sustaining the Nation’s Efforts to Improve Air Quality Through Integrated Transportation and Air Quality Planning (CAP) (Completed 1999)

Performer(s): Harvard University
Sponsor(s): U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA); U.S. DOT

For more information:

Lucy Garliauskas. FHWA, HEPE-1; 400 Seventh St., SW., Washington, DC 20590;
Tel: 202-366-2068; Fax: 202-366-3409; Email: Lucy.garliauskas@fhwa.dot.gov.

Abstract

Two parts: 1) Conformity Pilot Program Development: This effort assisted the U.S. EPA and the U.S. DOT in developing the concept and design of a conformity pilot program that gives States and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) the opportunity to propose new flexibility in meeting conformity requirements. The U.S. EPA published a Federal Register notice (64 FR 13476) announcing the opportunity to propose new flexibility in meeting the conformity requirements (40 CFR 93). No pilot proposals have been submitted to date.
2) Conformity Assessment Project (CAP)/Phase I: A 15-site research project was carried out independently by researchers at Harvard University to analyze the institutional and planning process impacts of the transportation conformity regulations. The study was completed in March 1999. Phase I established baseline information and a historical assessment on how conformity has worked and what effects conformity has had to date on transportation and air quality planning.

Transportation Air Quality: Selected Facts and Figures (Completed 1996)

Performer(s): Apogee Research, Inc.
Sponsor(s): FHWA

To order:

Noreen Bowles. FHWA, HEPN-1, 400 Seventh St., SW., Washington, DC 20590;
Tel: 202-366-9173; Fax: 301-366-3409; Email: Noreen.bowles@fhwa.dot.gov;
Order No.: FHWA-PD-96-006.

Abstract

This brochure shows the latest travel and emissions trends, and nonattainment areas throughout the Nation. Selected facts and figures include tables and summaries of the health impacts of smog and air pollution, total highway emissions and travel trends, and other interesting facts on transportation and air quality. Various policy responses to reducing criteria pollutants from automobiles are explored, including the CMAQ Program, the $6 billion Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program created under the Intermodal Surface Transportation Equity Act (ISTEA). A revision and update of the brochure was made available in 1999.