Description:

Transportation emissions have increased long-lasting greenhouse gases (GHGs), deteriorated air quality, and adversely increased climate change and extreme weather impacts. In turn, extremes like heatwaves threaten public transit users, damage roads, disrupt travel, and pose health and safety risks for vulnerable communities in summer. Similarly, winter snowstorms lead to traffic disruptions, multiple vehicle accidents, and fatalities. Reducing transportation emissions will not only enhance health outcomes and visibility but also optimize road conditions, thereby increasing road safety. Additionally, it will decrease vulnerability to environmental hazards such as heatwaves and flooding. This session invites studies based on observations, modeling, or a combination of both that focus on (i) strategies for decarbonizing transportation to attain carbon neutrality and climate change goals, (ii) crafting emission inventories for the transportation sector to inform climate modeling for climate scenario models, and (iii) exploring topics concerning road safety and infrastructure resilience amidst local and regional climate, air quality, and hydrometeorological shifts.