Who We Are
It All Adds Up to Cleaner Air is a public education and partnership-building initiative that was developed by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Transportation and Air Quality. It All Adds Up is designed to inform the public about the connections among their transportation choices, traffic congestion, and air quality.
The initiative emphasizes simple and convenient actions that people can take to improve air quality and reduce traffic congestion, while saving themselves time, money and stress. This community-based effort focuses on four core messages:
- Trip chaining, or combining errands into a single car trip
- Keeping cars properly maintained
- Refueling in the evening
- Choosing alternate modes of transportation, such as carpooling, mass transit, biking or walking
The It All Adds Up initiative was developed in response to requests from state and local governments for federal sponsorship of a public education initiative that would help them meet their mobility and clean air goals under two federal laws - the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century and the Clean Air Act Amendments.
