ENERGY CONSERVATION IN TRANSPORTATION AND CONSTRUCTION

Partial Contents: Highway transportation's response to energy conservation; Alternate transport modes and energy consumption; Alternate freight modes; Public transportation and energy conservation; Rail transportation - its place in the Nation's energy conservation program; Vehicle performance; Optimizing the use of materials and energy in construction; Options for conserving energy in transportation; Transportation system design; Energy conservation related to traffic operations.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Sponsored in part by American Road Builders' Association, Washington, D.C., Clemson Univ., S.C. Dept. of Civil Engineering and Georgia Inst. of Tech., Atlanta. School of Civil Engineering. The conference was held in Atlanta, Georgia, December 2-5 1975.
• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Institute

  Federal Highway Administration
  1310 North Courthouse Road, Suite 300
  Arlington, VA  United States  22201

  American Society of Heating, Refrig & Air Conditioning Engineers

  525 School Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20024

  Clemson University

  Department of Civil Engineering
  Clemson, SC  United States  29634

  University of Georgia, Experiment

  Georgia Experiment Station
  Experiment, GA  United States 
• Authors:
  • Busching, H W
  • Covault, D O
  • Dean, R L
  • Lochow, R
• Publication Date: 1976-5-10

Media Info

• Pagination: 291 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Energy; Energy conservation; Freight transportation; Fuel consumption; Highway operations; Highway transportation; Highways; Meetings; Railroad transportation; Subgrade (Pavements); Traffic; Transportation; Vehicle performance
• Old TRIS Terms: Cargo transportation
• Subject Areas: Construction; Economics; Energy; Operations and Traffic Management; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00143028
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA/NHI-76/N001 Conf Rpt.
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 6 2004 12:00AM