In recognition of the significant impacts and risks of climate change, municipalities and regional agencies across Canada are working to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across a broad range of sectors. Moving Smarter was developed to help municipal and regional agencies understand and assess available options for reducing GHG emissions from the urban transportation sector.
Moving Smarter aims to help municipalities and regional agencies understand the three main approaches to reducing urban transportation GHG emissions in urban areas. These are:
Moving Smarter presents a collection of 30 different measures (a variety of strategies, policies, programs, projects or actions) to address transportation-related GHG emissions, organized according to the three approaches. To help readers identify measures which are appropriate to their context, the applicability of measures by size of municipality, responsibility for implementation, timing of implementation, potential reductions in urban transportation GHG emissions, and timeframe when reductions might occur, are presented.