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Winnie Gerbens-Leenes and Karlieke Holtz
Transport greenhouse gas emissions are mainly caused by the use of fossil fuels, e.g., gasoline and diesel. This case study for The Netherlands calculates how alternative fuels, e.g., electricity, hydrogen or biofuels, contribute to policy aims to decarb...
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Daniele Martini, Martino Aimar, Fabio Borghetti, Michela Longo and Federica Foiadelli
In Italy, the availability of service areas (SAs) equipped with charging stations (CSs) for electric vehicles (EVs) on highways is limited in comparison to the total number of service areas. The scope of this work is to create a prototype and show a diff...
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Emilio Font de Mora, César Torres and Antonio Valero
Biodiesel from used cooking oil (UCO) is one of the most sustainable solutions to replace conventional fossil fuels in the transport sector. It can achieve greenhouse gas savings up to 88% and at the same time reducing the disposal of a polluting waste. ...
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Yalan Zhao, Yaoqiu Kuang and Ningsheng Huang
With a continuously growing share of the world?s overall energy consumption, the transport sector has been acknowledged as one of the most important contributors to global carbon emissions. This paper applies a complete decomposition and decoupling analy...
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Oliver Lah
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There is a large potential for cost-effective solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to improve the sustainability of the transport sector that is yet unexploited. Considering the cost-effectiveness and the potential for co-benefits, it is hard...
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Peter Ansu-Mensah,Monica Ansu-Mensah,Desmond Kuupiel
Pág. 12 - 17
The new paradigm shift in the discourse on sustainability and sustainable consumption globally and particularly in Africa, has led to the need to understand the consumption practices of people in order to strategize and safeguard scarce natural resources...
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Peter Ansu-Mensah,Monica Ansu-Mensah,Desmond Kuupiel
Pág. 12 - 17
The new paradigm shift in the discourse on sustainability and sustainable consumption globally and particularly in Africa, has led to the need to understand the consumption practices of people in order to strategize and safeguard scarce natural resources...
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Syed Ale Raza Shah, Mr, Sofia Anwar, Prof., Syed Asif Ali Naqvi, Dr
Pág. 348 - 369
Over the last decade, the importance of energy consumption in transport sector has burgeoned forth and has been growing rapidly in Pakistan, and the course is being augured to linger over the coming decades. This paper brings about the function of transp...
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Marian Zaharia, Aurelia Patra?cu, Manuela Rodica Gogonea, Ana Tanasescu and Constan?a Popescu
Environmental and energy taxation are essential components for designing global economic policies and they often contribute to achieving the sustainable economic development goals in contemporary economies. Starting from the analysis of certain elements ...
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Nibedita Dash, P. Balachandra
Pág. 1809 - 1818
Increasing urbanization, in terms of growth in population as well as geographical spread, in the developing countries has significant implications for the transport sector. First is the increase in traffic volume and second, energy consumption. With cons...
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Michelle Leichter, Isadora Hackenhaar and Ana Passuello
Urban activities, such as transportation, are responsible for a large portion of energy-related CO2 emissions. As the need for sustainable urban development increases, decision-makers embrace Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a reliable tool capable of gene...
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Henriette Spyra, Hans-Jürgen Salmhofer
Pág. 4050 - 4059
Decarbonising our economies is one of the great challenges of our time. The Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Directive 2014/94/EU aims at mitigating the environmental impact of transport and presents one element to tackle the challenge of transport decar...
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Wei-Shiuen Ng, Lee Schipper, Yang Chen
This paper examines two major emerging constraints on transport in fast-growing Chinese urban cities: oil supply and urban infrastructure. The research considers automobile technology, alternative fuels, and mobility choices, as well as policy measures t...
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Matthew Knight, Eduardo Blanco-Davis, Oliver Platt and Milad Armin
Green energy is at the forefront of current policy, research, and engineering, but some of the potential fuels require either a lot of deeper research, or a lot of infrastructure before they can be implemented. In the case of hydrogen both are true. This...
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Angelo Borneo, Luca Zerbato, Federico Miretti, Antonio Tota, Enrico Galvagno and Daniela Anna Misul
In recent decades, the automotive industry has moved towards the development of advanced driver assistance systems to enhance the comfort, safety, and energy saving of road vehicles. The increasing connection and communication between vehicles (V2V) and ...
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Anna Manowska
The impact of environmental regulations introduced by the European Union is of key importance for electricity generation systems. The Polish fuel structure of electricity production is based on solid fuels. Moreover, the generating base is outdated and m...
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João Carlos de Oliveira Matias, Radu Godina and Edris Pouresmaeil
The world population is growing at a very high rate, which also entails a massive increase in energy consumption, and also, therefore, in its production, which is gradually and steadily increasing. Energy and the environment are essential to achieving su...
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The present paper highlights a quantitative method to maximize energy efficiency based on the minimum energy consumption and maximum quality of life from consumption behaviors. Quality of life is expressed by utility, which is a Constant Elasticity of Su...
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Zixia Xiang, Yanhong Yin and Yuanwen He
The present paper highlights a quantitative method to maximize energy efficiency based on the minimum energy consumption and maximum quality of life from consumption behaviors. Quality of life is expressed by utility, which is a Constant Elasticity of Su...
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Adrian Stone, Bruno Merven, Tiisetso Maseela, Resmun Moonsamy
AbstractIt is key for national economic planning to build the tools to forecast energy demand from major sectors like transport in a credible way. As a starting point, this requires building a sufficiently detailed ?bottom-up? picture of technologies and...
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