Estimating Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions from Motorcycle-taxis in Bandung, Indonesia

In developing countries, paratransit often meets essential mobility while compensating for overtaxed and underfunded public transport systems. Yet paratransit frequently meets these needs with poorly maintained, older vehicles that emit high levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs). International climate change finance mechanisms could help fund cleaner vehicles, but they require a business-as-usual GHG emissions baseline against which to compare actual emissions. Irregular scheduling, routing, and driving patterns make generating baselines challenging for paratransit. This article works around these limitations by employing a fuel consumption and fuel efficiency approach to estimate and compare five baselines for motorcycle taxis (ojeks) in Bandung, Indonesia. The baselines are based on one-day and one-week revealed preference surveys as well as one-week real time global positioning system (GPS) data. The main finding is that the week-long fuel consumption survey data generated the lowest fuel efficiency and highest GHG estimates; hence driver survey data may be a useful tool in constructing a conservative GHG emissions baseline, especially when GPS verifies reported distance traveled. The study also underlines several fertile areas for future research, including expanding the period of estimation; examining the relationship between self- reported distance and fuel consumption data; and optimizing survey administration.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADC20 Transportation and Air Quality. Alternate title: Estimating Baseline Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Motorcycle-Taxi in Bandung, Indonesia.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Sudarmanto, Budi Nugroho
  • Zusman, Eric
  • Fujiwara, Akimasa
  • Zhang, Junyi
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
• Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 21p
• Monograph Title: TRB 94th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Base lines; Developing countries; Environmental impacts; Estimating; Fuel consumption; Greenhouse gases; Motorcycles; Paratransit vehicles; Taxi services
• Geographic Terms: Bandung (Indonesia)
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment; I15: Environment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01552933
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 15-3959
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 6 2015 8:39AM