Transportation
Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States and contributes significantly to local air pollution, which disproportionately affects disadvantaged communities. Experts in RFF’s Transportation Program are working to ensure that the decisions we make today lead to a clean, efficient, and equitable transportation system for generations to come.
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Resources Radio — Apr 30, 2024
Demystifying Electric Vehicle Ownership, with Sebastian Blanco
Sebastian Blanco discusses the basics of owning an electric vehicle, including tips for charging batteries and vehicle maintenance.
Common Resources — Apr 22, 2024
Why Are Electric School Buses So Expensive?
Decarbonizing transportation is important for achieving climate goals. Electric school buses could help while also improving public health and student outcomes, but the high cost of buses may slow progress. What options can bring down these costs?
Report — Apr 16, 2024
Navigating Sustainable Skies: Challenges and Strategies for Greener Aviation
This report outlines challenges, strategies, and policy efforts for greener aviation, both in the United States and globally.
Explainer — Apr 16, 2024
Sustainable Aviation 101
This explainer details key challenges to reducing aviation’s environmental impact and outlines potential technology and policy options for overcoming these challenges.
Report — Apr 16, 2024
Navigating Sustainable Skies: Challenges and Strategies for Greener Aviation
This report outlines challenges, strategies, and policy efforts for greener aviation, both in the United States and globally.
Explainer — Apr 16, 2024
Sustainable Aviation 101
This explainer details key challenges to reducing aviation’s environmental impact and outlines potential technology and policy options for overcoming these challenges.
Report — Apr 2, 2024
Global Energy Outlook 2024: Peaks or Plateaus?
RFF's annual Global Energy Outlook harmonizes a range of long-term energy projections to find key trends in global energy consumption, emissions, and geopolitics.
Report — Mar 18, 2024
Prioritizing Justice in New York State Cap-Trade-and-Invest
This report, produced in partnership with RFF and the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, analyzes the emissions effects of different cap-trade-and-invest policy designs in New York State.
Workshop — Mar 15, 2024
2024 Transportation Engineering, Economics, and Policy Workshop
2024 Transportation Engineering, Economics, and Policy Workshop
RFF Live — Mar 12, 2024
Digging Deep: Critical Minerals, Electric Vehicles, and the Role of Innovation
An RFF Live event exploring critical mineral markets, increased electric vehicle demand, and technological innovation
Policy Leadership Series — Nov 29, 2023
Electrifying Transportation: A Policy Leadership Series Event with Cathy Zoi
A conversation with former EVgo CEO and Director Cathy Zoi on the ways to electrify the transportation sector.
Workshop — Jun 12, 2023
Zero Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) Mandates Workshop: Research for Effective, Efficient, and Equitable Policy Implementation
An RFF workshop exploring zero-mission vehicle (ZEV) mandates and how they will change the transportation landscape in the United States.
Resources Radio — Apr 30, 2024
Demystifying Electric Vehicle Ownership, with Sebastian Blanco
Sebastian Blanco discusses the basics of owning an electric vehicle, including tips for charging batteries and vehicle maintenance.
Common Resources — Apr 22, 2024
Why Are Electric School Buses So Expensive?
Decarbonizing transportation is important for achieving climate goals. Electric school buses could help while also improving public health and student outcomes, but the high cost of buses may slow progress. What options can bring down these costs?
Common Resources — Mar 29, 2024
There’s a Better Way to Mine for Electric Vehicle Batteries
As demand for electric vehicles in the United States increases, innovative methods of obtaining the critical minerals that power electric vehicles can help mitigate social and environmental impacts on communities.
In Focus — Mar 19, 2024
In Focus: New Federal Vehicle Emissions Standards
This video shares insights about a new federal regulation for greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles, with RFF Senior Fellow Josh Linn.
Media Highlight — Jan 1, 2024
Scientific American: “There’s a Better Way to Mine for Electric Vehicle Batteries”
RFF Fellow Beia Spiller and former RFF intern Sangita Kannan share their thoughts on improving critical mineral mining practices in their coauthored op-ed.
Press Release — Dec 12, 2023
Reliability of the Critical Minerals Supply Chain is Dependent on International Cooperation
A new report lays out the challenges and policy options associated with sourcing and processing these critical minerals.
Media Highlight — Oct 3, 2023
PBS: “Electric Cars—Pros and Cons”
Fellow Beia Spiller, who directs RFF's Transportation Program, discusses the benefits and costs of widespread EV adoption in two episodes of the series “Energy Switch.”
Media Highlight — Aug 8, 2023
Washington Post: "Is It Cheaper to Refuel Your EV Battery or Gas Tank? We Did the Math in All 50 States."
A popular article about the monetary and environmental costs of refueling electric and gas-powered vehicles cites RFF research about the social cost of carbon.
