TRANSPORTATION ENERGY CONSIDERATIONS

Maximum transportation energy conservation potentials and means for avoiding extreme adverse impacts have been identified. Financing, particularly from fuel taxes, is of particular concern as a low-cost means for encouraging maximum fuel conservation with minimum increase in total travel costs. Over half of all petroleum is used for transportation and 40% for highway transportation. A projected 70% improvement in miles per gallon, trip consolidation, shifts to walk and bicycle, and shifts to transit, in that order, could cut highway fuel use in half, absorb more than a doubling of fuel price with no cost increase to the operator, and accommodate forecast increases in travel by 1985. A review of petroleum use, travel forecast, travel characteristics, vehicle miles per gallon, conservation methods, roadway improvements, highway financing, and vehicle operating costs shows how this is possible.

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  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • French, A
• Publication Date: 1976-2

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 27-45
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transportation Engineering
  • Volume: 102
  • Issue Number: TE1
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0733-947X
  • Serial URL: https://ascelibrary.org/journal/jtepbs

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Energy conservation; Forecasting; Fuel consumption; Mode choice; Public transit
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00131029
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: American Society of Civil Engineers
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proc. Paper 11919
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 21 1976 12:00AM