Case Study No. 15: The Environmental Benefits of Bicycling and Walking
National Bicycling and Walking Study
Source: Federal Highway Administration
Quantifiying the fuel use and pollution avoided by bicycling and walking involved these steps:
- estimating miles bicycled and walked in the United States
- estimating the "VMT tradeoff" for bicycling and walking - the extent to which miles biycled and walked substitute for miles that would have been driven in motor vehicles
- estimating per-mile emissions and fuel consumption of these avoided mile driven, for four air pollutants - carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
This report is one of twenty-four reports in the National Bicycling and Walking Study series.
