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Pages 51-53

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... • Mitigating and Responding to Climate Change, which will require, in less than three decades, a truly massive transition to EVs powered by clean electricity -- involving 260 million LDVs and tens of millions of trucks and other vehicles -- while building out a nationwide charging infrastructure and developing net-zero carbon fuels for the aircraft, heavy vehicles, and vessels that require high-energy-density liquid fuels. Shifting demand to less carbon-intensive modes and building public and political support for doing so will be just as challenging and just as necessary as the EV transition itself.
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From page 52...
... This shift will reduce harmful emissions and noise from road vehicles but will also require mitigating the similarly harmful emissions from alternative fuels while also improving transportation access to health care and increasing options for active travel. • Promoting Equity and Inclusion spans far more than transportation, but transportation can play a supportive role by expanding access to opportunity via multiple modes; redressing past isolation of discriminated against communities by the location, construction, and operation of transportation infrastructure; documenting best practices in expanding equity and inclusion; and developing measures of inequities and prioritizing equity in future plans and investments.
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From page 53...
... Far less studied and understood than these examples are questions such as how travel affects personal growth and happiness and how individual aspirations can be aggregated to represent society as a whole. Improved understanding of these questions would inform public policy and help ensure that transportation leads to a thriving society.
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