Description: This book provides an excellent technical review of the costs and benefits of alternative efficiency technologies and alternative fuels for light vehicles and commercial aircraft.
By: Schäfer, Andreas; Heywood, John B.; Jacoby, Henry D.; Waitz, Ian A.
Knovel Release Date:
Oct 1, 2009
Knovel Subject Area(s):
Transportation Engineering
Description:
In the nineteenth century, horse transportation consumed vast amounts of land for hay production, and the intense traffic and ankle-deep manure created miserable living conditions in urban centers. The introduction of the horseless carriage solved many of these problems, but has created others. Today, another revolution in transportation seems overdue. Transportation consumes two-thirds of the world's petroleum and has become the largest contributor to global environmental change. Most of this increase in scale can be attributed to the strong desire for personal mobility that comes with economic growth. In this book, the authors present the first integrated assessment of the factors affecting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from passenger transportation. They examine such topics as past and future travel demand; the influence of personal and business choices on passenger travel's climate impact; technologies and alternative fuels that may become available to mitigate GHG emissions from passenger transport; and policies that would promote their adoption. While taking into account all of these options, the authors consider how to achieve a more sustainable transportation system in the next thirty to fifty years.
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