With much work already performed elsewhere on transportation systems dealing with passenger transportation and some facets of freight transportation, special attention is given here to short- and near-term fuel savings opportunities in the movement of freight. Also, concern about the desirability of pursuing a fuel conservation program which focuses on near- and medium-term improvements that enhance the performance of transportation systems steered this work toward longer-term system modifying changes. The results of the research are reported in three sections that follow an introductory chapter. Section 2 deals with the issue of fuel savings which might be achieved through the implementation of short and medium-term technological, operational, and institutional changes in intercity freight transportation. In conducting this portion of the research, a methodology for evaluating alternative conservation measures was developed and is presented. Section 3 provides a review of the form and function of transportation services from an empirical reference. It's primary purpose is to examine the various components of the transportation system and to identify characteristics of the existing modal operation in order to develop a basis, as well as the requirement, for the evaluation of long-term system modifications. The final section of this report, Section 4, deals in a general, generic way with the organization of transportation services and the ways in which those systems might evolve subject to present versus system changing conditions. 30 references. (ERA citation 03:004172)


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    Title :

    Assessment of the Opportunities for Achieving Energy Efficiencies in Transportation


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    Publication date :

    1976


    Size :

    114 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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