Climate Adaptation
New York City Ranked Top for Carbon-Friendly Transportation
- A big pandemic dividend: U.S. cities spewed less pollution
- Cumulative travel in 2020 dropped by 380 billion vehicle miles
Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg
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Working from home and the massive reduction in travel due to Covid-19 led to plummeting pollution across America last year, according to a new report.
Rankings on the climate impact of transportation in the country’s by mobile-analytics company Streetlight Data assessed carbon friendliness based on factors including: total vehicle miles traveled (VMT); how much people are biking and walking; transit usage; population density; and circuity, which measures how directly people can drive to destinations.