Environmental Benefits Benefit/Cost Transit Slides

Air Pollution  Air pollution is the most costly impact of auto use, but most travelers do not consider these costs when they choose to drive NOTES TO USER: Insert photo of your city here. Refer to for non-attainment areas and specific pollutants. Refer to for maps regarding pollutants. Delete this box to maintain slide formatting.

Air Quality  Transit benefits air quality when it reduces auto use  Experience from transit oriented development:  San Diego Uptown District: 20% reduction  Mountain View Caltran TOD: 10% reduction  Portland, OR Regional Plan: 7-8% reduction Parsons Brinckerhoff (various sources) 2001 Source: Parsons Brinckerhoff (various sources) 2001

Air Quality  Transit vehicles generate net air quality benefits whenever they remove three to twelve autos or more, from the road  Transit vehicles generate net air quality benefits whenever they remove three to twelve autos or more, from the road  Our project reduces air pollution costs by __ Source: McCubbin and Mark Delucchi, Social Cost of the Health Effects of Motor- Vehicle Air Pollution, 1996 NOTES TO USER: Potential Source: Mobile5 Model or Environmental Benefits Worksheet. Delete this box to maintain slide formatting.

Water Pollution  Urban runoff is polluted by oil from motor vehicles by oil from motor vehicles  Well-maintained, well- occupied buses will generate less water pollution than single occupant vehicles  Our project reduces water pollution costs by ___ NOTES TO USER: Potential Source: Environmental Benefits worksheet. Delete this box to maintain slide formatting.

Noise Pollution  The costs of noise pollution vary by vehicle type and average travel speeds  A bus can reduce noise, relative to cars, when it has as few as three passengers (depending on the type of road)  Our project reduces noise pollution costs by __ NOTES TO USER: Potential Source: Environmental Benefits worksheet. Delete this box to maintain slide formatting.