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Sep 23, 2025
National Strategy and Decarbonization Pathways
Transportation & Climate Change Resource Library

National Strategy and Decarbonization Pathways

U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization (fact sheet) is a strategy for federal leadership to decarbonize the entire U.S. transportation sector developed in collaboration by the Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Environmental Protection Agency. Sector specific action plans are listed below.

Other National Strategy Resources
Resilience and Climate Adaptation
Transportation & Climate Change Resource Library

Resilience and Climate Adaptation

Facility Specific
Planning, Risk Assessment, and Asset Management
Resilience to Natural Hazards
U.S. Department of Transportation Webinars
Analysis Tools
Emission Reductions, Clean Energy, and Electrification
Transportation & Climate Change Resource Library

Emission Reductions, Clean Energy, and Electrification

Resources
Analysis Tools
  • EVI-Pro is an electric vehicle infrastructure projection tool created by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and is accompanied by the simplified EVI-Pro Lite.
  • The Alternate Fuel Life-Cycle Environmental and Economic Transportation (AFLEET) Tool created by the Argonne National Laboratory allows examination of environmental and economic costs and benefits of alternative fuel and advanced vehicles. 
  • Market Acceptance of Advanced Automotive Technologies (MA3T) is a market simulation model for the DOE Vehicle Technologies Program created by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
  • The Federal Highway Administration’s Infrastructure Carbon Estimator (ICE) (request access) provides life cycle estimates of energy and GHG emissions based on national emission and energy use factors for materials and construction activities. Minnesota DOT has developed the Minnesota Carbon Emissions Tool to calculate emissions reduction potential of 26 project types, and a Minnesota specific version of the Federal Highway Administration’s Infrastructure Carbon Estimator (ICE).
  • The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Pave tool created by the Federal Highway Administration can be used to assess environmental impacts of pavement material and design considerations. 
  • MOtor Vehicle Emission Simulator (MOVES) is an emission modeling system created by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that estimates emissions for mobile sources at the national, county, and project level for criteria air pollutants, greenhouse gases, and air toxics.
  • The Energy and Emissions Reduction Policy Analysis Tool (EERPAT) created by the Federal Highway Administration is a screening tool to compare, contrast, and analyze various greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction policy scenarios for the transportation sector at a state level. It estimates GHG emissions from surface transportation, accounting for both fuel and electric vehicles.
  • The Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Emissions Calculator Toolkit created by the Federal Highway Administration provides projections of emissions reductions associated with various types of transportation projects, including pedestrian improvements, electric vehicle and alternative fueling infrastructure, managed lanes, and adaptive traffic control. 
  • The Aviation Environmental Design Tool created by the Federal Aviation Administration models aircraft performance in space and time to estimate fuel consumption, emissions, noise, and air quality consequences.