Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Sustainable Transportation Future

Welcome again to our blog. As for today, we would like to gain your attention on one of the hottest topic for this year, Sustainable Transportation Future.

One of the fundamental tasks that can only be done for a sustainable economy is to fund the science needed to build the technological base. A unique asset can be used to develop a leadership position in sustainability technologies by combine the creativity hard-wired into culture. We need to develop a way to get off of fossil fuels and more efficiently store energy. We also need more effective ways of managing and recycling our waste stream. The work of our scientists and engineers could not be more important. We must fund the basic research and enough of the applied research to demonstrate possible profitability.

By the way for our development, environment surrounding first. The development that have been made must consistent with environmental friendly. Sustainable environments working to overhaul our country’s outdated and crumbling infrastructure with a new approach that will foster healthier, sustainable, and just communities. We believe in the potential of what we call “next generation infrastructure” to improve transit systems, make buildings more energy efficient, better manage our water systems and rebuild regional food systems. Focusing on outside area and their surrounding areas, we seek solutions that connect and improve these infrastructure systems in ways that maximize positive impacts and minimize negative environmental, economic and social consequences.

Cities with overbuilt roadways have experienced unintended consequences, linked to radical drops in public transport, walking, and cycling. In many cases, streets became void of “life.” Stores, schools, government centers and libraries moved away from central cities, and residents who did not flee to the suburbs experienced a much reduced quality of public space and of public services. As schools were closed their mega-school replacements in outlying areas generated additional traffic; the number of cars on US roads between 7:15 and 8:15 am. increases 30% during the school year.

Yet another impact was an increase in sedentary lifestyles, causing and complicating a national epidemic of obesity, and accompanying dramatically increased health care costs.

In practice there is a sliding scale of green transport depending on the sustainability of the option. Green vehicles are more efficiency, but only in comparison with standard vehicles, and they still contribute to traffic congestion and road crashes. Green public transport vehicles including electric trains, trams and electric buses combine the advantages of green vehicles with those of sustainable transport choices. Other transport choices with very low environmental impact are by cycling.The most common green transport choice, with the least environmental impact is by walking.


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