NJCCA Workgroups

Transportation Workgroup

Chair: Zoe Baldwin (Regional Plan Association)

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Description: Achieving New Jersey’s energy and emissions targets to address climate change will require a multifaceted and sustained effort. To date, most attention with regard to reducing emissions in the transportation sector has been focused on encouraging the uptake of electric vehicles through incentives and deployment of EV charging infrastructure. The transition to electric vehicles is important, but it will likely take several decades. Also, a focus on reducing emissions by increasing the use of EVs ignores other important economic, social, and environmental goals related to the future of transportation in New Jersey. Rather than a single goal, New Jersey policymakers and communities should pursue multiple goals simultaneously. The Alliance Workgroup is beginning a new initiative that seeks to demonstrate how a comprehensive, multi-goal transportation planning and policy framework can be used to achieve carbon-neutral transportation that also provides healthy, just, efficient, and resilient mobility for all New Jersey residents. This effort will explore what it may take to retrofit New Jersey’s communities and infrastructure to accommodate next-generation transportation in a way that simultaneously reduces emissions makes it easier to travel, improves health, increases transportation system efficiency, improves the resilience of communities and infrastructure, and ensures equitable mobility and access for low-income households, black and brown communities, persons with disabilities, older adults, and other traditionally transportation-disadvantaged individuals and groups.

Watch the December 2021 Vision Forum: Healthy, Just Resilient and CO2-neutral Mobility for All that is related to this project.

Learn more about the project here.