| Description |
1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
"This new book takes a nuanced look at building a sustainable transportation infrastructure and provides an overview of the harmful effect of various modes of transportation on the environment. The environmental impact of transportation is significant. Transportation is a major user of energy, it burns most of the world's petroleum, and is the fastest-growing contributor to carbon dioxide emissions. Although environmental regulations in many countries have reduced the individual vehicle's emissions, this has been offset by an increase in vehicles on the road and airways"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Some considerations on the environmental impact of highway traffic / Constantin-Cristian Stroe, Valeriu Nicolae Panaitescu, Marco Ragazzi, Elena Cristina Rada, and Gabriela Ionescu -- Design of local roadway infrastructure to service sustainable energy facilities / Karim A. Abdel Warith, Panagiotis Ch. Anastasopoulos, Wayne Richardson, Jon D. Fricker, and John E. Haddock -- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions through strategic management of highway pavement roughness / Ting Wang, John Harvey, and Alissa Kendall -- Infrastructure and automobile shifts: positioning transit to reduce life-cycle environmental impacts for urban sustainability goals / Mikhail Chester, Stephanie Pincetl, Zoe Elizabeth, William Eisenstein, and Juan Matute -- The use of regional advance mitigation planning (RAMP) to integrate transportation infrastructure impacts with sustainability: a perspective from the USA / James H. Thorne, Patrick R. Huber, Elizabeth O'Donoghue, and Maria J. Santos -- Quantifying the total cost of infrastructure to enable environmentally preferable decisions: the case of urban roadway design / Conrad A. Gosse and Andres F. Clarens -- Sustainable development and airport surface access: the role of technological innovation and behavioral change / Tim Ryley, Jaafar Elmirghani, Tom Budd, Chikage Miyoshi, Keith Mason, Richard Moxon, Imad Ahmed, Bilal Qazi, and Alberto Zanni -- Diesel internal combustion engine emissions measurements for methanol-based and ethanol-based biodiesel blends / Charalambos A. Chasos, George N. Karagiorgis, and Chris N. Christodoulou -- Electric cars: technical characteristics and environmental impacts / Eckard Helmers and Patrick Marx -- Investigated cold press oil extraction from non-edible oilseeds for future bio-jet fuels production / Xianhui Zhao, Lin Wei, James Julson, and Yinbin Huang -- An innovative path to sustainable transportation / Daniel Sperling. |
| Subject |
Transportation -- Environmental aspects.
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Environmental impact analysis.
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Environmental impact statements.
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Environnement -- Études d'impact. |
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Transport -- Aspect de l'environnement. |
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environmental impact statements. |
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Environmental impact statements |
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Environmental impact analysis |
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Transportation -- Environmental aspects |
| Added Author |
Ionescu, Gabriela, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Transportation and the environment. Oakville, ON ; Waretown, NJ, USA : Apple Academic Press, [2017] 9781771884662 (DLC) 2016016119 (OCoLC)946480971 |
| ISBN |
9781771884679 (electronic bk.) |
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1771884673 (electronic bk.) |
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9781315365886 |
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131536588X |
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9781315322698 |
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1315322692 |
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(hardcover) |
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(hardcover) |
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