Sustainable transport solution for a medium-sized town in Turkey—A case study

Summary. Authorities in Slovenia and other EU member states are confronted with problems of city transportation. Fossil-fuel based transport poses two chief problemslocal and global pollution, and dwindling supplies and ever increasing costs. An elegant solution is to gradually replace the present automobile fleet with low emission vehicles. This article first explores the economics and practical viability of the provision of solar electricity for the charging of electric vehicles by installation of economical available PV modules and secondly the customer preferences and opinions about alternative low emission vehicles. Present estimates indicate that for the prevailing solar climate of Celje -a medium-sized Slovenian town -the cost would be only 2.11€ cents/kWh of generated solar electricity. Other results have also revealed that the most relevant factor for purchasing low emission vehicle is total vehicle price.ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕ ТРАНСПОРТА НА СОЛНЕЧНОЙ ЭНЕРГИИ, ПРЕДПОЧТЕНИЯ КЛИЕНТОВ И МНЕНИЯ О СРЕДСТВАХ ТРАНСПОРТА НА АЛЬТЕРНАТИВНОМ ТОПЛИВЕ -ПРИМЕР СЛОВЕНИИ Аннотация. Власти Словении и других стран-членов ЕС сталкиваются с проблемами городского транспорта. Транспорт работающий на основе ископаемых видов топлива представляет две главные проблемы -локальное и глобальное загрязнение, сокращающиеся поставки и постоянно растущие расходы. Хорошим решением является постепенная замена существующего автомобильного парка на транспортные средства с низким уровнем выбросов. Эта статья впервые исследует экономику и практическую жизнеспособность использования солнечной электроэнергии для зарядки электрических транспортных средств путем установки экономичных доступных PV модулей и, во-вторых, предпочтений заказчиков и мнений об альтернативных транспортных средствах с низким уровнем выбросов. Современные оценки показывают, что для имеющего в основном солнечный климат, Целье -среднего размера города Словении -цена будет только 2.11 евроцентов / кВт-ч выработанной солнечной электроэнергии. Другие результаты также показали, что наиболее важным фактором при покупке транспортного средства со сниженным уровнем вредных выбросов является его полная стоимость.

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“…The ultra-compact cars weigh less than 450 kg and occupy less than two-third length of a conventional compact car [17].…”

Section: Electric Vehicles -Sustainable Solution For City Centresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Solar energised transport solution and customer preferences and opinions about alternative fuel Vehicles – the case of slovenia

Knez

Sternad

2017

Transport Problems

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“…Electric vehicle offers an improved overall thermodynamic efficiency (Muneer et al, 2011). However, electric vehicles are uncommon in Nigeria and replacement of internal combustion engine with electric type involves huge capital investment in infrastructure and capacity building.…”

Section: Challenges Of the Road Transportation System In Nigeriamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Muneer et al (2011), has reported that 23% of energy losses in vehicles are due to frequent standby and breaking by drivers. This leads to more CO 2 emissions.…”

Section: Fleet Maintenance Elimination Of Aging and Air Polluting Vementioning

confidence: 99%

Global Warming Potential Implications and Methodological Challenges of Road Transport Emissions in Nigeria

Nwanya¹,

Offili²

2013

EER

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The purpose of this study is to examine the repercussions vehicular road transport emissions have on global warming potential (GWP), and the need to address the issue considering methodological challenges facing road transportation in Nigeria. Specific objectives of the study includes to determine the emission level in the country, to evaluate the GWP and to develop a emission mapping network on trunk A roads in Nigeria. Accurate information on these emissions is required to strengthen the mitigation and adaptation ability of the country to tackle climate change. The study relied on direct measurement technique supported by literature as well as questionnaires administered on the organised vehicle fleet operators and road traffic management agency as data gathering methods. Also, detailed analysis of questionnaires responses was carried out. Results show that road transport account for over 14% of greenhouse gases. Survey findings indicate that excessive smoke emission offence accounts for 1-2% of the annual road traffic offences in Nigeria. Using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software version 16, five fitted simple linear regression models were developed. With these fitted models it is possible to map the gas concentrations on the kilometre travelled. Examination of the National Vehicle Identification Scheme (NVIS) revealed a rise in the periodic plate number generation from yearly record of 788,169 in 2001 to 791,832 in 2009. Human capacity requirements, based on yearly Drivers Licence (DL) processed, increased by 55% between 2000 and 2010. Three mutual strategies namely renewed urban and rural road transport infrastructure availability, regular fleet maintenance and capacities building for improved behavioural change of road users were recommended to help control road transport emissions. These measures if inflexibly implemented will change the transport sector from being a major global warming risk factor to that of Eco-friendly sector.

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“…With the rapid growth in global urbanization, more people have lived in urban areas than in rural areas since 2007 [4]. Besides, urban areas have also become the main source of energy consumption and carbon emissions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Besides, urban areas have also become the main source of energy consumption and carbon emissions. Urban areas account for only 2% of the world's surface area, but contribute 75% of the world's total energy consumption [4] and more than 70% of the world's carbon emissions [5]. Therefore, an increasing number of researchers have begun to pay attention to urbanization effect on carbon emissions.…”

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Urbanization Effect on Energy-Related Carbon Emissions in Jiangsu Province from the Perspective of Resident Consumption

Zhang

Zhao

et al. 2017

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Controlling carbon emissions without impairing urbanization and economic development highlights the necessity of researching energy-related carbon emissions. Urban areas have become the main source of energy consumption and carbon emissions. This paper has developed a modified version of the Kaya identity, which incorporates urbanization and resident consumption, to analyze urbanization effect on carbon emissions in Jiangsu Province. Then, the Kuznets curve theory was introduced to estimate the inflection point of the marginal urbanization effect. The results indicated that the urbanization effect was still an important factor that influences total carbon emissions. The marginal urbanization effect will still increase until the urbanization rate reaches 78.94%. Therefore, Jiangsu should also pay attention to the urbanization effect even though it may increase slowly or decrease, and the results of this paper on marginal urbanization effect make it clear that controlling the carbon emissions without the expense of urbanization growth and economic development is still a big challenge for Jiangsu Province. We have proposed some policy recommendations, which include paying attention to the quality of development of urbanization, adjusting the industrial structure, making changes to lifestyles, and so on.

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Sustainable transport solution for a medium-sized town in Turkey—A case study

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Solar energised transport solution and customer preferences and opinions about alternative fuel Vehicles – the case of slovenia

Solar energised transport solution and customer preferences and opinions about alternative fuel Vehicles – the case of slovenia

Global Warming Potential Implications and Methodological Challenges of Road Transport Emissions in Nigeria

Urbanization Effect on Energy-Related Carbon Emissions in Jiangsu Province from the Perspective of Resident Consumption

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