Research Article
Feb 1976
Transportation Energy Considerations
Publication: Transportation Engineering Journal of ASCE
Volume 102, Issue 1
Abstract
Maximum transportation energy conservation potentials and means for avoiding extreme adverse impacts have been identified. Financing, particularly from fuel taxes, is of particular concern as a low-cost means for encouraging maximum fuel conservation with minimum increase in total travel costs. Over half of all petroleum is used for transportation and 40% for highway transportation. A projected 70% improvement in miles per gallon, trip consolidation, shifts to walk and bicycle, and shifts to transit, in that order, could cut highway fuel use in half, absorb more than a doubling of fuel price with no cost increase to the operator, and accommodate forecast increases in travel by 1985. A review of petroleum use, travel forecast, travel characteristics, vehicle miles per gallon, conservation methods, roadway improvements, highway financing, and vehicle operating costs shows how this is possible.
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Transportation Engineering Journal of ASCE
Volume 102 • Issue 1 • February 1976
Pages: 27 - 45
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© 1976 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Feb 1976
Published online: Feb 5, 2021
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Alexander French
Chf. of the Highway Statistics Div., Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Washington, D.C.
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