The company has its own economic interest to promote more renewable electricity and electric car use.
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In a survey of 1, 500 drivers last month, 75% said they had reduced car use.
Another is the absence of restrictions on car use, which would greatly improve cycle safety.
One European study found that halving bus fares would reduce car use by less than 1%.
Urban car use creates more congestion than rural car use, but petrol taxes do not distinguish between the two.
To cut pollution, car use in Mexico city will have to be restrained.
The white paper's chances of stemming this rise in car use, at least in the short term, are not good.
"There are targets to reduce car use by 30% - you simply couldn't do that in the countryside" she says.
In Britain trips to the shops have been the category of car use that has dropped off most steeply since 1995.
The expert panel set up to advise the government on the white paper is dominated by advocates of the need to restrain car use.
Measured globally, car use will go on rising, for as people in emerging markets get rich, they want the mobility and status that car-ownership offers.
If they keep to these targets (admittedly a big if), they will have to restrict car use, which will reduce in turn their imports of oil.
The government's plan to curb car use by raising fuel duties by at least 5% in real terms annually has been undermined by weak oil prices.
Cars are one of the main culprits of sprawl but mainstream politicians have proved unwilling to take the risky step of opposing or restricting voters' car use.
But in the rich world the decades-long link between rising incomes and car use has been severed (see article), and miles driven per person have been falling.
Its chairman, David Begg, has established a reputation in Edinburgh as a forceful advocate of the need to improve public transport and restrain car use in urban areas.
Politicians who worry a lot about car-industry jobs are also beginning to realise that there can be votes in curbing car use where congestion and air pollution are worst.
The service, which Apple has been developing for years, has a mode for viewing areas in three-dimensions, along with a local search service and turn-by-turn driving directions for in-car use.
The rise in urban living, the shift away from manual labour, the increase in car use and the availability of cheap energy-dense food are among many factors behind the increase.
Early this year, the city came up with an idea to reduce car use for short city trips: a free bus service circling the major business locations, government offices and tourist sites.
In the case of the latter, consumers would call on the iPad for weather and traffic information and to plan their routes, then synch the data to their iPhones for in-car use.
The study found that the health benefits of the policy could be maximized by looking at other barriers to public transport use such as "poor access and inconvenience, ease of car use, and poor pedestrian access of neighbourhoods".
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Renault chose Seville as the city to launch its three new zero-emission models in October 2011, and ultimately these vehicles and others will be able to make use of 75 battery-recharging points that are being built around the city as part of Proyecto Movele, a government-sponsored plan to boost electric car use.
Ministers have also to arrive at a view on the extent to which car-use can be restrained.
The report in the American Academy of Paediatrics said car seat use should be kept to a minimum for the first three months of life.
Ford said the first car to use the new technology in Europe would be the EcoSport, a compact SUV expected to go on sale this year.
"Personally, I think the iPad is too big for car navigation use, but the customer is always right, " says Marcus Thielking, chief marketing officer for navigation software firm Skobbler.
The selling point of the E-rev is that is cuts out "range anxiety" because if the electric charge in the battery runs low the car can use petrol to generate more.
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