Government of Canada Provides On-Line Tool to Help Cities Reduce Greenhouse Gases and Polluting Emissions

By Government of Canada http://www.civicinfo.bc.ca/302n.asp?newsid=1966
OTTAWA − Transport Canada has launched a new on-line tool that helps cities estimate the annual impact on greenhouse gases and other emissions from transportation-related projects such as new transit or roads. The Urban Transportation Emissions Calculator is an Internet-based tool for urban transportation professionals to calculate transportation-related emissions, including greenhouse gases and criteria air contaminants (e.g. carbon, nitrous and sulphur oxides, volatile organic compounds and particles). The tool calculates both direct and indirect emissions from passenger, commercial and urban transit vehicles. Direct emissions are released directly from the tailpipe of a vehicle, while indirect emissions are created and released from the production of electricity used by electric vehicles as well as from the production, refining and transportation of transportation fuels.

The Urban Transportation Emissions Calculator is available on-line at www.tc.gc.ca/UTEC.