Transportation

. Achieve 100% fossil free and/or zero emissions surface transportation by 2050.

. CLEAN Future Act: Directs EPA to set GHG emission standards for light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicles and non-road modes of transportation, increasing standards to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

. CLEAN Future Act: Transition federal fleets to alternative fuel and low- or zero-emission vehicles.

. CLEAN Future Act: Accelerate the approval of low-carbon alternative transportation fuels under the Renewable Fuels Standard.

. Make a massive investment in affordable, reliable, and environmentally sustainable transportation systems.

. Invest in research and development of innovative transportation planning to reduce energy use and GHG emissions.

. Make GHG reductions a criterion for federal funding eligibility for transportation and highway funding.

. Add GHG assessments to transportation planning laws and regulations.

. AEIA: Establish R&D pilot program to improve efficiency for nonroad mobile equipment.

. Make federal funding for surface transportation contingent on state and local transportation plans that achieve quantifiable reductions of carbon dioxide pollution from mobile sources.

. Mandate 100% zero emission or electric new vehicle sales by 2030-2040.

. Create federal tax credits and/or rebates for purchase of electric vehicles.

. Create additional incentive programs for electric vehicle purchase for low and middle-income people.

. Create programs to build charging infrastructure in public space and private residences.

. Expand financial investment in research and development for batteries to reduce costs.

. Create educational programs about electric vehicles targeting dealers and consumers.

. Use governmental purchasing power to buy electric vehicles.

. Create a tax on electric vehicles to ensure funding for road construction and maintenance.

. Require utilities to forecast demand from electric vehicles in forecasts and integrated resource planning.

. Require utilities to incentivize off-peak charging and assess the role electric vehicles can play as batteries for grid stability.

. Provide funding support for manufacturing of zero-emission vehicles.

. Offer consumer incentive programs to encourage scrapping internal combustion engine vehicles, and ensure lower-income households benefit equitably.

. Increase motor fuel sales tax to reflect cost of driving.

. Increase fuel efficiency standards, aiming for over 100 miles per gallon by 2050.

. Create incentives for low-emission vehicles, including rebates, lower registration fees, and lower excise sales taxes.

. Eliminate free on-street parking, raise parking rates, and amend zoning regulations to trim the amount of free parking developers are required to provide.

. Create educational programs about fuel efficiency targeting consumers.

. Create policies to decrease congestion, such as no-car zones, increased parking fees, congestion toll pricing, computerized traffic lights, dedicated road lanes, and incentives for staggered work hours and carpooling.

. AEIA: Conduct research on improving efficiency of passenger and commercial vehicles and alternatives to fossil fuels.

. Create incentives for shared vehicles to replace individually-owned vehicles.

. Create equity programs to increase access to ridesharing for low and middle-income people.

. Create programs for publicly owned zipcars and bike sharing.

. Create a program to develop online information systems and apps for public transport nationwide.

. Create incentives for ridesharing, including reducing tolls and parking fees for carpools.

. Improve traffic management policies such as HOV (high occupancy vehicle) lanes.

. Develop a fleet of public taxis and carpooling services.

. Convert public transportation to electric vehicles, buses, trains, trollies, and light rail.

. CLEAN Future Act: Establish program to retrofit or replace diesel-fueled school buses with low- and zero-emissions buses.

. Expand bus rapid transit systems.

. Invest in and expand public transportation systems to better connect all neighborhoods to critical services.

. Make the use of multiple modes of public transit seamless and efficient.

. Link transportation funding and land use planning to encourage transit-oriented development.

. Increase funding to encourage alternatives to driving.

. Create fare-free public transit.

. Create fare-reduction programs and increased service for low and middle-income people.

. Require that all new buses are electric by 2030.

. Create an analysis of access to public shopping, services, institutions, and related needs within 20 minutes walking distance.

. Develop densification planning, building codes and tax incentives that reduce sprawl and promote proximity to transit.

. Expand public green space and recreational land and waters.

. Fund safe-streets programs in low-income areas for bicyclists and pedestrians, building sidewalks and crosswalks, etc.

. Create and enforce stronger traffic calming initiatives to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety.

. Pedestrianize 50% of city streets.

. Create incentives for use of electric bicycles.

. Create clear and uniform standards for use of electric bikes to ensure safety.

. Connect bike sharing and public transport systems.

. Increase bicycle parking at public transport points.

. Add bike racks to buses.

. Build bike lanes separate from vehicle traffic.

. Establish grants for bicycle infrastructure and bulk bicycle purchase to offer 1 to every low- and very-income public housing housing resident.

. Create incentives for teleworking and flexible/compressed work schedules to reduce peak travel and overall driving.

. Build an electric nationwide high-speed rail network.

. Invest in high-speed rail and phase out airplane flights with comparable times to rail alternatives.

. Connect major metropolitan areas within 500 miles of each other by high-speed rail as soon as possible.

. Electrify 100% of rail lines and engines by 2030-2035.

. Expand regional rail systems.

. Expand investments in rail infrastructure to reduce congestion points.

. Open rail corridors for renewable energy generation and transmission.

. Mandate 100% electric trucks by 2035-2050.

. Use the Clean Air Act to put limits on GHG emissions from trucks.

. Create tax credits, grants and other incentives to transition to energy efficient freight vehicles.

. Mandate fuel efficiency standards for freight vehicles.

. Create freight delivery systems for urban distribution including consolidation centers and alternative delivery methods that reduce congestion, like cargo bikes.

. CLEAN Future Act: Establish pilot program to electrify short-haul refrigerated trucks.

. CLEAN Future Act: Expand Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Program to include medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, and make grant/loan eligibility based on GHG emissions, rather than fuel economy.

. Create streamlined processes for permitting, siting and construction of infrastructure for electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

. Provide aid and technical assistance to international efforts to help reduce black carbon emissions from diesel trucks and ships as well as diesel generators and industrial processes.

. AEIA: Conduct research on advanced technologies for medium- to heavy-duty vehicles.

. EPA should adopt a CO2 emissions standard for aircraft.

. Create a joint aviation emission reduction measure with the European Union.

. Increase taxes on aviation passenger tickets.

. Create a new climate tax on aviation.

. Invest in research and development of sustainable aviation fuels.

. Require airlines to report their fuel efficiency data.

. Mandate aircraft fuel efficiency standards.

. Increase research and development for efficiency and electrification of aviation.

. Implement a private jet and frequent-flier tax while ensuring mobility for isolated communities.

. Require all publicly owned airports to purchase only zero-emission ground support equipment (GSE) starting in 2022.

. Fund assistance to hospitals to replace helicopters with eVTOL (all-electric and hybrid-electric powered vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft.

. Fund grants or low-cost loans to flight-training schools and flying clubs to buy electric airplanes, to help jump start the industry.

. Incentivize airlines to use sustainable aviation fuels and ensure availability at airports.

. Mandate designs of ships to be more fuel efficient.

. Enforce and fund application of the Clean Air Act to limit greenhouse gas emission from ships, aircraft, smokestacks and other sources.

. Develop a comprehensive plan to reduce black carbon emissions from ships.

. Create a tax or credit system for greenhouse gas emissions from ships.

. Require ships to track and report all greenhouse gas emissions.

. Assess the net impact of the Jones Act on shipping emissions, and change the law to ensure emission reductions.

. Renegotiate the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships to require decarbonisation of fleets to limits of available technology.

. Require emissions reduction per ton of cargo of 50% by 2030.

. Increase R&D to develop more fuel‐efficient ships and low‐ to zero‐emission ship propulsion technologies.