The WCCC's Clean, Green & Smart Initiative
When transportation policy leaders in California, Oregon, Wahington and Alaska launched the WCCC in 2001, their immediate goal was to address the looming challenge of goods movement in the Pacific states. In addition to advocating Congress for a national freight program supporting the national interest in the West Coast Corridor transportation system and freight movement networks eleswhere in the nation, it commissioned an important study. The WCCC Trade and Transportation Study was the first step by Coalition members to inform decision makers about the importance of the Corridor as an unparralleled driver of economic growth and innovative technology.
Five years into the Coalition's work, a co-equal priority emerged: the need for response to evidence of global climate change - and transportation's role as a source of this environmental risk and impact. In its continuing effort to inform and provide guidance and resources, the Coalition gathered the most promising innovations dealing with transportation-related impacts on the environment and climate change in a "Clean, Green and Smart" Best Practices Manual. The Manual covers five categories (Transportation Systems Analysis, Traveler Information Integration, Intelligent Transportation Infrastucture, Cleaner Fuels and Engines, and Law & Regulation), along with their specific benefits to goods movement, personal travel, and the transportation system. This Fact Sheet provides a brief summary.
To support and encourage public-private cooperation and collaboration in the on-going creation of a "clean, green and smart" west coast transportation corridor, the WCCC organized and staged the very successful two-day "Climate Policy and West Coast Transportation Conference" this past September at Stanford University. Speaking to an audience that ranged from regional, state, and national public officials, to CEOs of technology and energy comopanies and public interest advocates, a roster of experts and officials reviewed the successes, breakthroughts, challenges and requirements at the core of the attempt to move "beyond oil", which today powers 97% of our transportations system.
A summary of the conference and all conference presentations can be found in the "Events" section of this site. This Fact Sheet will provide a brief overview.
