Critical Issues in Transportation for 2024 and Beyond (2024) / Chapter Skim
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focus on achieving climate goals has added a new international dimension to transportation governance. The Paris treaty discussed in the Climate Change section above gives nations flexibility in how they achieve their domestic carbon reduction goals, but international shipping and aviation GHG emissions standards are set in other international fora under the auspices of the United Nations.
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Most notable is the Commercial Aviation Safety Team -- a public–private collaboration that is intensely focused on preventing aviation accidents and implementing measures beyond what safety regulations require.158 However, transportation officials at all levels express concern about working at cross purposes with other levels of government, other agencies, and private carriers in pursuit of development, safety, equity, and environmental goals. The dismay of city and county officials over a California Public Utilities Commission ruling in August 2023 to allow 24-hour operation of self-driving cars on the local streets of San Francisco and San Mateo County is but one example.159 The complexities of governing transportation across international, national, state, and local levels -- as well as interactions with privatesector providers -- are real enough to the practitioners engaged in them.
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