Travel within urban areas accounts for about one-third of all the person-miles traveled, and about 5 Quads of energy in 1975. Two energy-saving strategies were designed for this sector, aimed at minimal disruption to lifestyles and the economy while achieving the reductions in aggregate energy, especially petroleum, consumption. These productive conservation strategies were tested in three typical cities; results were expanded to national urban totals and compared to results under a reference forecast of In-Place policies. One strategy stressed group travel while the other promoted individual travel. A scenario approach was used for projection of economic and social variables. Both strategies saved energy. Trips per person declined under the Group Travel Strategy, suggesting that its greater energy savings were at the expense of some decrease in mobility. Environmental degradation and traffic fatalities impacts under Group Travel Strategy were significantly different, and better than impacts under either the Individual Travel Strategy or the In-Place Policy. (ERA citation 08:031951)
Technology Assessment of Productive Conservation in Urban Transportation: An Overview
1982
38 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Integrative Innovation of Productive Service-Transportation Industry-Urban Agglomeration
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