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NCTF has developed a number of resources to better understand the transportation opportunities and challenges in our region. Check back regularly to check out new postings! Presentation to RFTA Board of Directors on Oil Independence and Livability Initiative Sept 15 Transit Oriented Development Workshop Dan Burden Workshops
Presentation to
Great Outdoors Colorado on the need
for new funding for regional trail systems of state importance.
Presentation on the
creation of the Alliance for Sustainable
Transportation.
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Livable
Places, Open Spaces Transit centers and accompanying mixed use development around them can be a key to creating vibrant town centers and keeping our region livable over the long term. NCTF is working to encourage private sector partnerships in improving transit infrastructure, such as high quality transit centers in each community in the Roaring Fork Valley, and user-friendly transit stops throughout the system. Although transit oriented development often occurs around fixed guideway (rail) systems, the Roaring Fork Valley has a perfect environment for making transit oriented development a successful component of an enhanced bus system. By focusing affordable housing around transit our region can solve several challenges at once. The Center for Transit Oriented Development
American Public Transportation Association
Transit Resource Guide
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Choose a "Green Car" on Your Next Car Purchase! Every time you purchase a new vehicle you can help green our region's fleet of cars and trucks. The following websites can help you choose the most environmentally friendly vehicles on the market today, with respect to emissions and fuel economy. :: The Environmental Guide to Cars and Trucks :: Drive Clean :: Compare Fuel Economy (EPA website)
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The transportation sector contributes about a 1/3 of all climate emissions nationwide. In western states transportation is responsible for about half of all climate emissions. NCTF has a three-pronged approach to reducing climate emissions from the transportation sector.
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Expand our options:
create enticing alternatives to cars Learn more about transportation and climate change. :: Transportation and Climate change: 10 Keys for Mapping Policy Pathways. :: Climate Solutions Issue Briefing: Transportation and Global Warming Solutions.
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For more information visit the National Biodiesel Board website. What | Where | Why | Who | Cost | How to Support Biodiesel is a clean burning alternative fuel, produced from domestic, renewable resources. Biodiesel contains no petroleum, but it can be blended at any level with petroleum diesel to create a biodiesel blend. It can be used in compression-ignition (diesel) engines with little or no modifications. Biodiesel has been proven to reduce certain tail-pipe emissions, it is nontoxic, biodegradable, and totally renewable. Read more |
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New Century Transportation Foundation PO Box 428 | 320 Main Street, Suite 202, Carbondale, CO 81623 | PHONE 970.704.9200 a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization |
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