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Title:

TRANSPORTATION ENERGY TO THE YEAR 2020

Accession Number:

00486287

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/0309047021

Abstract:

This paper addresses the question: What effect will the changing energy markets of the future have on the U.S. transportation system through 2020? The answer given is "a great deal, and very little." A great deal is explained as a tightening of the petroleum market during this period, with an attendant rise in market power of a few producers, resulting in higher prices and economic vulnerability that will heighten the need for improved efficiency and begin to generate viable markets for alternative energy sources. Also, much will have to be done to advance the technology of transportation energy use both for alternative energy sources and the efficiency of motor fuel use. Concerns about environmental quality and national security are likely to be the driving forces that will begin the transition to alternative fuels. However, the changing energy markets will have very little effect on the operational characteristics of the U.S. transportation system, for it will continue to be a system that consists of automobile-dominated personal transportation and truck-dominated freight transport, and that is experiencing expanded use of air travel.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper appears in Transportation Research Board Special Report 220, A Look Ahead: Year 2020, Proceedings of the Conference on Long-Range Trends and Requirements for the Nation's Highway and Public Transit Systems, June 22-24, 1988, Washington, D.C.

Monograph Title:

A LOOK AHEAD: YEAR 2020

Monograph Accession #:

00486281

Report/Paper Numbers:

HS-040 656

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Greene, David L
Sperling, Daniel
McNutt, Barry

Pagination:

pp 207-231

Publication Date:

1988

Serial:

Transportation Research Board Special Report

Issue Number: 220
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0360-859X

Conference:

Conference on Long-Range Trends and Requirements for the Nation's Highway and Public Transit Systems

Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
Date: 1988-6-22 to 1988-6-24

ISBN:

0-309-04702-1

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Figures (9) ; References (50) ; Tables (5)

Identifier Terms:

Transportation 2020

Uncontrolled Terms:

Energy efficiency

Old TRIS Terms:

Subject Areas:

Administration and Management; Economics; Energy; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Aug 31 1989 12:00AM

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