Climate smart choices: Shifting traveller behaviour from planes to trains

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Julie Cook Kitchener Apr 15, 2024 13:18 pm
Hi all,   I’m sure most of you are aware that changing flying behaviour is important for reaching global climate goals, and that one way to do that is to substitute flights with t…

Looking for Effective Programs Related to Energy, Transportation or Climate Change (including food waste or water conservation)

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Jay Kassirer Ottawa Feb 13, 2024 16:02 pm
Do you know of a particularly effective or innovative approach for promoting behaviors related to energy, transportation, other climate change mitigation (e.g. food waste reductio…

Proffers for New Development in Fairfax County, Virginia

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Jay Kassirer Ottawa Jan 25, 2024 15:04 pm
Fairfax County established Transportation Demand Management (TDM) requirements (“proffers”) for new development that would have significant traffic impacts. For buildings within t…

Smart Trips Austin

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Jay Kassirer Ottawa Jan 25, 2024 14:54 pm
Smart Trips Austin encourages residents to take multi-modal transportation options more often through personal interactions that educate and overcoming barriers. Smart Trips reinf…

Nominations for Landmark designation of (1) transportation behavior programs and (2) behavioral building energy conservation programs – ONLY ONE MONTH LEFT before nominations close.

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Jay Kassirer Ottawa May 4, 2021 14:51 pm
Do you know of a particularly effective or innovative approach for promoting more sustainable travel or energy use behaviours? Your own program? Nominate it for Landmark designati…

Two New Landmark Travel Behavior Case Studies – “City of Austin’s Leave Time Travel Incentive” and “Seattle’s Just One Trip Phase II”

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Jay Kassirer Ottawa Mar 8, 2021 15:00 pm
Tools of Change has published two new open-access, full-length, Landmark Travel behavior change case studies. Our Landmark case studies are peer-selected to recognize behavior cha…

BART Perks Phase II - Transit Peak Demand Shifting Case Study Posted on Tools of Change

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Jay Kassirer Ottawa May 21, 2020 14:12 pm
BART Perks Phase II used a Smartphone-based platform to incentivize shifts in public transit trips that reduced peak demand. The approach proved cost-effective relative to the ave…

Call for Nominations 2020: (1) Travel Behavior Programs and (2) Behavioral Building Energy Conservation Programs

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Jay Kassirer Ottawa Apr 30, 2020 14:09 pm
Do you know of a particularly effective or innovative approach for changing travel or energy use behaviours? Yours? Nominate it for Landmark designation. Designation as a “Landmar…

"Stay on the Ground" Reduces Air Travel, Increases Train Use

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Jay Kassirer Ottawa Feb 9, 2020 16:54 pm
"Stay on the Ground" is the most effective approach to-date at shifting air travel to train travel, and also at promoting the sale of carbon offsets for airplane travel, this appr…

Personalized Smartphone Messaging and Incentives Shift Travel Patterns in Landmark Case Study

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Jay Kassirer Ottawa Feb 9, 2020 16:54 pm
Bologna’s Bella Mossa program has been awarded Landmark designation by our peer selection panel. This program awarded participants points for walking, cycling or using public tran…

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