With the largest share of greenhouse gases coming from transportation Neil Pedersen, former executive director of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), issues a rallying cry to the industry to decorbonize before it is too late. In this clip from the latest episode of the Thinking Transportation podcast form Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) he sets out why he believes it is vital that all Americans look carefully at the scientific evidence for the climate emergency and begin to push for change now, or suffer the consequences. To hear the whole episode, in which he also reflects on his time at TRB and other hot topics such as traffic safety just visit the Thinking Transportation homepage or find the podcast on your favorite streaming service.
Guest info: Neil Pedersen was executive director of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) from 2015 to 2022. In that role he provided leadership to TRB’s technical activities, including its annual meeting of more than 14,000 professionals, 177 technical committees, conferences, and publications; its peer-reviewed policy consensus studies; and its multimodal cooperative research programs. Prior to joining TRB, Neil spent 29 years at the Maryland Department of Transportation, where he served the last eight years as State Highway Administrator and Governor’s Highway Safety Representative.
