Correction: added 'from aviation' ..3rd paragraph 1st sentence
15th Annual Transportation Research Conference Today I was at the 15th Annual Transporation Research Conference, a forum for shared research in transportation in the Upper Midwest. The featured speaker was Professor John Heywood, Sun Jai Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Sloan Automotive Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Heywood expressed an urgency that is needed to reduce fossil fuel emissions of greenhouse gases(GHGs), not a single method, but many. Mike Neuman's $$ to reduce vehicle miles traveled should be one of many methods used to reduce fossil fuel emissions of GHGs. My poster presentation today was on Mike's proposal, which I thought went very well. I am proposing that people get serious and greatly reduce their emissions of GHGs ASAP. Many jobs have already moved to the suburbs. That trend began several years ago and continues. The majority of the rush hour traffic in the Minneapolis-St.Paul area is suburb to suburb. Some commutes even go through downtown areas. This is not new, just more frequent now than ever before. There were not any presentations on how to reduce fossil fuel emissions of GHGs from aviation at the conference, not that I was aware of anyway. I read an email today that the Central Illinois Regional Airport will receive another $ 6.2 million from the federal government for the continued expansion of runways, adding up to $24.2 million according to Fran Strebing, deputy director of marketing at the airport. Last year, the federal funding allowed the airport to lengthen and widen its primary runaway, she said. [Tuesday, May 4, 2004 , By Scott Miller, Pantagraph Publishing Co., SPRINGFIELD IL.] - The harm being done to the atmosphere and climate is very severe, and increasing rapidly. Strong measured are needed ASAP to try to reduce the damage to the atmosphere and climate by aviation. Archive for public view at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ClimateArchive/ Pat Neuman Chanhassen, MN ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Metropolitan Issues Forum http://www.e-democracy.org/tcmetro Rules: Sign posts with real name. You may not post more than twice a day.
