Green Transportation a More Eco-efficient Option

Abstract

Due to our lifestyle and way of using energy, especially in transportation systems, increase in green house emissions has become a threatening reality at present time and its impacts will be worse in the near future. Green transportation system aims to maintain a pollution free environment with lesser emissions and less impact on human health and on the natural environment. An eco-efficient transportation system means improving environmental quality, efficiency, and profitability by reducing unnecessary inputs and outputs in production and operation processes of transportation system. According to World Business Council on Sustainable Development, eco-efficiency is being achieved by the delivery of competitively priced goods and services that satisfy human needs and bring quality of life, while progressively reducing ecological impacts and resources intensity throughout the life cycle, to a level at least in line with the Earth’s estimated carrying capacity. Eco-efficiency is a bridge between economy and the environment and is about increasing resource productivity and decreasing environmental pressure. Green transportation depends heavily on the energy linked to vehicle movements. Energy efficiency is affected by vehicle design, road infrastructure and operations. Every one of these factors should be reviewed from eco-efficiency perspective and environmental issues should become a prominent element in green transportation strategies, operations and technologies. Article will end with some recommendations towards green transportation, which is more eco- efficient option.