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Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from On-Road Vehicles in Midwestern USA States and Integrated Approach to Achieving Environmental Sustainability in Transportation
| 题名： | Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from On-Road Vehicles in Midwestern USA States and Integrated Approach to Achieving Environmental Sustainability in Transportation |
| 作者： | Kandiah, R.; Nedunuri, K. K. |
| 关键词： | Greenhouse gas emission##On-road vehicles##Environmental sustainability##Environmental policies##Transportation improvements##Energy conservation## |
| 摘要： | Nation’s emerging need as reflected in the NEXTRANS theme is to address the impacts of high level strategic decisions and policies to boost economic growth, on the quality of life for people. In the transportation sector, this need translates into addressing the aggravating problems of energy insecurities and environmental degradation while maintaining the United States technological leadership and economic competitiveness. The transportation sector accounts for 30% of US emissions that may cause considerable climate changes, if uncontrolled, impacting quality of life. 70% of all U.S. petroleum is consumed by the transportation sector most of it comes from politically unstable/sensitive regions of the world. There is a need to reduce external dependency on petroleum by increasing fuel efficiencies in vehicles, using alternative fuels, harnessing indigenous sources and encouraging changes in travel habits leading to fuel or energy conservation. As innovations are being sought in developing next generation transportation technologies and achieving energy efficiencies, it is imperative that we must ensure environmental sustainability of these solutions and ascertain holistic improvements to the quality of life. We proposed to monitor changes in climate and environmental parameters with concomitant changes in technology enabled integration and other sustainability factors as envisioned in the NEXTRNS center theme. Two project objectives – one technical and one educational- were laid out in this project. The technical objective was to assess current inventory of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the six Midwestern states of the nation and to estimate improvements as technology enabled sustainable solutions are adopted with the use of alternative fuels. The technical objective was combined with the educational objective that focused on bringing awareness of transportation among middle school and high school students, training undergraduate students in sustainable transportation through curriculum enhancements and summer undergraduate research at the NEXTRANS center. |
| 总页数： | 19 |
| 报告类型： | 科技报告 |
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