FUEL CONSERVATION: THE KEY ALTERNATIVE SOURCE OF ENERGY

The Republic of South Africa is the envy of most oil-importing nations in that it has many options open to it in the event of oil embargoes, shortages or price hikes. The alternative local sources such as oil-from-coal, methanol, ethanol, esterified sunflower-seed oil and gas oil are briefly discussed. The cheapest alternative source of them all is, however, conserving whatever fuel is available. This option is therefore considered in more depth with special reference to practices in traffic management, transport planning, choice of vehicles and their judicious use. It is concluded that much more needs to be done to educate and encourage the motoring public to conserve fuel.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Pub. in Proceedings of the Annual Transportation Convention (ATC 1986), Pretoria, South Africa, Paper 2C/8 v2C 19pp Aug 1986.
• Corporate Authors:

  National Institute for Transport & Rd Res S Af

  P.O. Box 395
  Pretoria 0001, Transvaal,   South Africa 
• Authors:
  • Uken, E A
• Publication Date: 1986-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 22 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Energy conservation; Fuels; Highway planning; Methodology; Publicity; Recommendations; Specifications; Traffic; Transportation planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Requirement
• Old TRIS Terms: Traffic planning
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Research;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00477831
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: CSIR-RR-461
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 31 1988 12:00AM