Transportation Planning:
It’s Time for Green Design to Hit the Road

If our goal is to reduce the overall environmental impact of our building projects, we must begin paying more attention to the role automobiles play in these projects. Even the most environmentally responsible house—for example, an energy-independent, passive-solar house, built of salvaged and recycled materials, with graywater separation—will have a very significant environmental impact if its occupants have to get into single-occupancy cars each morning and commute twenty miles to work. Similarly, a state-of-the-art green office building should get low overall environmental marks if most of the workers continue driving their own cars to work every day.

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