“Making Transportation Sustainable: Insights from Germany”
The report lists five lessons that German experience offers to the United States for improving transportation sustainability through changes in travel behavior:
>Get the Price Right in order to encourage the use of less polluting cars, driving at non-peak hours, and more use of public transportation.
>Integrate Transit, Cycling, and Walking as Viable Alternatives to the Car as a necessary measure to make any sort of car-restrictive measures publicly and politically feasible.
>Fully Coordinate and Integrate Planning for Land Use and Transportation to discourage car-dependent sprawl and promote transit-oriented development.
>Public Information and Education to Make Changes Feasible are essential in conveying the benefits of more sustainable policies and enforcing their results over the long term.
>Implement Policies in Stages with a Long-Term Perspective because it takes considerable time to gather the necessary public and political support and to develop appropriate measures