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Transport Canada is committed to protecting and enhancing our environment
through a variety of programs, including:
- Moving on Sustainable Transportation
(MOST)
Transport Canada has established a Moving On Sustainable Transportation
(MOST) Program to support projects that produce the kinds of education,
awareness and analytical tools we need if we are to make sustainable
transportation a reality. The MOST Program will provide funding to help
support projects that will:
- provide Canadians with practical information and tools to better
understand sustainable transportation issues;
- encourage the creation of innovative ways to promote sustainable
transportation;
- and achieve quantifiable environmental and sustainable-development
benefits.
- Urban Transportation Showcase Program
(UTSP)
Through this program, Transport Canada will work in partnership with
provinces and municipalities, to establish a number of transportation
"showcases" in selected cities, for demonstrating and evaluating a
range of urban transportation strategies within a broad planning framework.
The impacts of these strategies on other urban challenges (such as smog
reduction, congestion, infrastructure costs) will also be evaluated. This
new information will lay a foundation for the adoption of effective,
integrated GHG emission reduction strategies in urban centres across Canada
by 2010.
- Freight Sustainability Demonstration
Program (FSD)
The Program is one of three components of the Freight Efficiency and
Technology Initiative under Action Plan 2000 on Climate Change. It is
five-year, $4.5 million program designed to encourage the take up of
technologies or best practices that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions from
all freight modes. To achieve this goal, the FSDP provides funding, through
a competitive process, to companies and not-for-profit organizations who
plan to undertake a freight-related demonstration project of an existing or
new technology or best practice in the aviation, marine, rail, truck or
intermodal sectors.
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