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Vahid Hosseini, Associate Professor, Graduate Program Chair, School of Sustainable Energy Engineering, Simon Fraser University

Bike-sharing programs can help cities reduce emissions and congestion

Bike sharing has considerable untapped potential to help decarbonize urban transportation. (Unsplash)

Transportation accounts for almost one-quarter of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. In Metro Vancouver, around 40 per cent of emission are from transportation.

In Canadian cities, there is more to transportation than greenhouse gases: urban air pollution, exposure to toxic pollutants, traffic, congestion and road safety hazards. In 2015, transportation related air pollution was associated with over 1,200 premature deaths in Canada.

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