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PA EPA LAUNCHES TRANSPORTATION AIR QUALITY CENTER
Release Date: 07/02/98
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FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1998
EPA LAUNCHES TRANSPORTATION AIR QUALITY CENTER
EPA has opened a Transportation Air Quality (TRAQ) Center to assist State and local air quality regulators, transportation planners, and private businesses with development of innovative and cost-effective transportation programs that help reduce harmful air pollution. The TRAQ Center is a centralized collection of materials available by an electronic database or telephone to transportation and mobile source incentive-based program information and tools, technical assistance, key contacts, funding sources, and partnership opportunities. Personnel at the Center can provide assistance with high priority issues such as evaluating and launching voluntary, market-based programs, integrating air quality and transportation plans, managing sprawl with information to assess the best growth choices for communities, and enhancing public education efforts. The agency’s goal is to provide stakeholders an array of initiatives in air quality management as an alternative to programs based on regulation or as a means of supplementing traditional programs. Examples of programs that help reduce air pollution are ozone action days that advise people about bad air quality, subsidized parking for car and van pools, subsidy for public transportation fares, flexible work schedules such as telecommuting, compressed work weeks or staggered work hours and the use of alternative or cleaner fuel such as compressed natural gas. Information explaining available products, publications, and electronic databases such as the “Smart Travel Resource Center” is available by contacting the TRAQ Center at: https://www.epa.gov/omswww/traq or at the TRAQ Center information request phone line: 734-214-4l00. For additional information, call Lucie Audette at 734-214-4850.
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