Intercity Transport and Climate Change: Strategies for Reducing the Carbon Footprint

The focus of this book is on intercity passenger transport. The book discusses how intercity passenger transport is a less explored transport segment because it lacks a common statistical definition and plays a minor role in many travel surveys because it includes only a small share of overall trip generation. The share of overall passenger transport performance is high, making the climate relevance even higher due to the dominance of car and air modes. The first chapter documents the importance of intercity passenger transport in the overall transport segment and underlines its role for climate change. The second chapter describes how an international comparison is made that concerns the situation and development of intercity passenger transport according to the national transport plans. The problems climate change generated by intercity transport in Europe, China, Japan and the United States (US) are also highlighted. The third chapter extends the dimension of analysis to the overall external costs stemming from intercity transport. The fourth chapter discusses approaches to assess intercity passenger transport policies on the basis of spatial economic analysis. The fifth chapter attempts to measure the ‘social’ economic efficiency of two major transport modes, aviation and railways, in Japan’s domestic intercity passenger travel market. The chapter takes into account the life cycle of CO² emissions caused by carrier operations, construction and operation of infrastructure, and construction of aircraft/rolling stocks as well as the time spent by passengers who use these two intercity transport modes. The last chapter summarizes the results and gives policy proposals.

• Summary URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06523-6
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06523-6
• Corporate Authors:

  Springer International Publishing

  Cham,   Switzerland 
• Publication Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 280p
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research, Economics and Policy
  • Volume: 15
  • Publisher: Springer Cham
  • ISSN: 1572-4387
  • Serial URL: http://link.springer.com/bookseries/6647

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Climate change; Greenhouse gases; Intercity transportation; Passenger transportation; Pollutants; Strategic planning; Travel surveys; Trip generation
• Geographic Terms: China; Europe; Japan; United States
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Environment; Highways; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; I15: Environment; I70: Traffic and Transport;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01555422
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9783319065236
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 27 2015 10:03AM