Committee on (Energy and)
Alternative Transportation Fuels
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TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD
SCOPE AND MISSION
The emphasis of the committee is on policy
analysis, evaluation, and planning as related to alternative transportation fuels.
Activities focus on the institutional, behavioral, environmental, and broad
technological aspects of the introduction of alternative fuels.
In keeping with this scope, the committee
will conduct research that supports the development of policies—taxes,
regulations, and/or information dissemination—that will increase the rate
of market penetration of alternative fuels, determined through committee
research efforts to be meritorious vs. petroleum fuels on a full social cost
basis (i.e., direct cost, environmental cost or benefit, and energy security
cost or benefit). The committee should endeavor to contribute to the
achievement of the market penetration goals of the Energy Policy Act (EPACT) of
1992 with respect to alternative and replacement fuels for light duty vehicles,
as appropriate. However, though light duty vehicles are a primary focus, the
committee will also consider heavy duty vehicles, rail, and air transportation,
which are not covered by EPACT.
Researchers with work falling within the scope of the Alternative Fuels
Committee are invited to submit papers to TRB
which they wish to have considered for presentation at the Annual Meeting.
Papers should be submitted directly to TRB
(not the committee chair); check the TRB
Contact Page.
Committee Contacts
Chair: Peter Reilly-Roe peterrr@NRCan.gc.ca
List of Committee Members
Committee Pictures
Committee Pictures from 2005 Meeting
Fulton and Noland win 2006 McNutt Award
NEW: Sperling, Hughes and Knittel win 2007 McNutt Award
Selected papers sponsored by the Committee and presented at the Meetings
Papers from 2002
Annual Meeting
Papers from 2005 Annual Meeting
Papers from
2006 TRB Annual Meeting
Papers from 2007 TRB Annual Meeting
*** NEW *** Upcoming Sessions and Papers
at the 2008 TRB Annual Meeting Sponsored by the Alternative Fuels and Energy
Committees
Summer Conferences Organized by the Committee
The committee co-organizes jointly with the TRB
Transportation Energy Committee every other summer a series of Asilomar Conferences on Transportation Energy Issues.
Current and past papers are available.
In August of 1998 the committee co-sponsored
the workshop "Air Quality Impacts of Conventional and Alternative Fuel
Vehicles" jointly with the
Millennium Paper
To mark the approach of the new millennium, each of the TRB 's
180 standing committees wrote a Millennium Paper to capture the current state
of the art and practice and their perspectives on future directions in their respective
areas of focus. Read our Committee's Millennium Paper
which requires you to have Acrobat Reader software on your computer.
Alternative Fuel Links
Links to all the
TRB Environmental Concerns Committees
An extensive list of
alternative fuels events is maintained by the U.S. Department of Energy's
Alternative Fuels Data Center.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this web site is maintained by
members of the TRB Committee on Alternative
Transportation Fuels. Information included here does not imply an endorsement
by committee members, the Committee, the Transportation Research Board, the
National Academy of Sciences, or the National Research Council.
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