The study identifies and evaluates realistic and practical transport policy changes related to fuel saving. Road transport consumes almost 90% of fuel supplied to the New Zealand internal transport sector. In the introductory chapter, transport fuel users; fuel conservation in rail, sea, and air transport; and social aspects of saving fuel are briefly discussed. The remainder of the report addresses road transport policies that might save fuel; they are divided into five groups, each successive group involving measures with greater restraints on personal mobility and lifestyle. Petrol rationing is the most direct and immediate means of reducing fuel use, and it is assessed that a savings level of 3 or 4% of domestic transport fuel would be acceptable to the public. A similar policy would be to ''ration'' by price; for example, 8% would be saved if petrol price were doubled. In the long term, 8% savings can be made by modification of the vehicle fleet by favoring more economical vehicles through duties, taxes, import quotas, and licensing. Around 1 or 2% could be saved by each of the following policies: driver education in economy driving techniques, engine tuning added to warrant of fitness checks, area traffic control, and linked signals to reduce stop/start driving. Other policies save even less, except that addition of methanol to petrol (12%), and conversion of fleets to LPG (11%) and CNG (1.5%), would save imported oil, but not energy. (ERA citation 04:003687)
Energy in Transport. Volume 2. Policies. Report No. 27
1977
157 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Policies, Regulations & Studies , Road Transportation , Energy conservation , Transportation systems , New Zealand , Air transport , Allocations , Economics , Education , Evaluation , Fuel consumption , Gasoline , Government policies , Imports , Land transport , Licensing , Liquefied petroleum gases , Maritime transport , Methanol , Public opinion , Rail transport , Resource conservation , Social impact , Taxes , Traffic control , Vehicles , ERDA/291000 , ERDA/298000 , ERDA/320200
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