Government and businesses should accelerate efforts to procure clean fuel/engine fleet vehicles and fuel them in ways that result in real reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.

Establish consumer tax incentives for purchase of efficient, advanced technology vehicles.

Establish new programs and strengthen existing policies that foster alternative transportation choices and provide an incentive to drive fewer miles including:

1. Policies that encourage the use of mass transit such as tax benefits for employer-subsidized transit pass and parking cash-out programs.
2. Credits or incentives for compact development.
3. Policies that promote car-sharing programs such as those already established in Europe and the United States, which offer the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by lowering the total number of vehicle trips and vehicle-miles traveled within major cities.
4. Public education and outreach efforts to identify and promote the benefits of efficient vehicles and other transportation choices to stimulate demand for these technologies.
5. Research on the impact of telecommuting, information technologies, and Internet commerce on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Improve infrastructure for intermodal transportation (i.e., bike racks, bus shelters, train stations).

In cases where greenhouse gas reductions can be quantified and verified against credible benchmarks, give communities the opportunity to receive credit when they use community design to lower traffic by adopting zoning codes and other changes that encourage more efficient land use patterns to reduce pollution from motor vehicles.

Increase and redirect existing support for research, development, deployment and production of advanced vehicle components towards technologies that enable greater efficiency including hybrid electric systems, lightweight materials, clean engines, energy storage systems, and fuels.

Support research to determine the potential of intelligent transportation systems (a group of technologies that could improve the flow of traffic through urban areas) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Prioritize and accelerate efforts to develop infrastructure for alternative-fueled vehicles that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Perform additional research on how to reflect the number of vehicle-miles traveled as a variable cost of insurance so that drivers better understand the price associated with the number of miles they drive.