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FrontMatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW -- 2 INTERACTIONS: DEFINING THE PROBLEMS -- 3 INTERVENTIONS: EXAMINING THE RANGE OF SOCIOTECHNICAL RESPONSES -- 4 CROSS-CUTTING THEMES -- 5 FORMAL EDUCATION INTERVENTIONS ON CLIMATE, ENGINEERED SYSTEMS, AND SOCIETY -- 6 INFORMAL EDUCATION ON CLIMATE, ENGINEERED SYSTEMS, AND SOCIETY -- 7 PERSPECTIVES OF ENGINEERING PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES, BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND NATIVE AMERICANS -- Appendix A: Workshop Agendas -- Appendix B: Participants Lists -- Appendix C: Summary of Evaluations

FrontMatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Lessons from Past Warm Worlds -- 3 Climate Transitions, Tipping Points, and the Point of No Return -- 4 Deciphering Past Climates-Reconciling Models and Observations -- 5 Implementing a Deep-Time Climate Research Agenda -- 6 Conclusions and Recommendations -- References -- Appendixes -- Appendix A: Committee Biographical Sketches -- Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants -- Appendix C: Presentations to Committee -- Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations.

Special Report 264 - The Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program: Assessing 10 Years of Experience -- Frontmatter -- SR264 - The Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program:Assessing 10 Years of Experience -- Publication Notice -- The National Academies -- Committee for the Evaluation of the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- Box ES-1. Transportation Control Measures Included in the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, Eligible for CMAQ Funding -- FIGURE ES- 1 CMAQ Spending Priorities (FY1992- 1999) -- Chapter 1 - Introduction -- INTRODUCTION TO THE CMAQ PROGRAM -- STUDY CHARGE -- STUDY APPROACH -- REPORT ORGANIZATION -- FIGURE 1-1 Flow of potential CMAQ project outcomes. -- Chapter 2 - Context of the CMAQ Program -- THE CMAQ PROGRAM AND AIR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT -- THE CMAQ PROGRAM AND CONGESTION MITIGATION -- FUTURE PROGRAM DIRECTION -- CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PROGRAM EVALUATION -- TABLE 2-1 Contribution of Transportation to Emissions of Criteria Pollutants in the United States, 1999 -- TABLE 2-2 Growth in Urban Miles, Lane Miles, and Vehicle-Miles Traveled -- TABLE 2-3 Air Quality Status of Congested Urban Areas -- TABLE 2-4 Examples of CMAQ-Eligible Projects That Provide Congestion Relief and Their Effects -- TABLE 2-5 Federal Exhaust Emission Standards -- TABLE 2-6 Federal Exhaust Emission Standards for Heavy-Duty Diesel Engines -- FIGURE 2-1 Sources of criteria air pollutants. -- FIGURE 2-2 Estimated mobile-source emissions by vehicle and fuel type. -- FIGURE 2-3 Private-vehicle trip lengths and travel times in Metropolitan Statistical Areas, 1983, 1990, 1995. -- FIGURE 2-4 Speed Correction Factors from MOBILE6 for Freeways by Average Speed (mph) for Tier 1 Normal Emitting Gasoline-Fuel.