How Sustainable Transportation Can Utilize Climate Change Technologies to Mitigate Climate Change

Ashraf Ud Din (), Imran Rahman, Alejandro Vega-Muñoz (), Ehsan Elahi, Guido Salazar-Sepúlveda, Nicolás Contreras-Barraza and Rakan Radi Alhrahsheh
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Ashraf Ud Din: School of Transportation and Logistics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
Alejandro Vega-Muñoz: Instituto de Investigación y Postgrado, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Central de Chile, Santiago 8330507, Chile
Ehsan Elahi: School of Economics, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255049, China
Guido Salazar-Sepúlveda: Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción 4090541, Chile
Nicolás Contreras-Barraza: Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad Andres Bello, Viña del Mar 2531015, Chile
Rakan Radi Alhrahsheh: Applied Sociology Programs, Al Ain University, Al Ain P.O. Box 64141, United Arab Emirates

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 12, 1-22

Abstract: The build-up of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is causing warmness in the Earth’s atmosphere, resulting in climate change. The transport sector is one of the active causes of GHG emissions and it is imperative to use sustainable transport sources to control climate change. There is a measure that aims to encourage citizens to stop using their own vehicles as their choice of transport and instead opt for joint sustainable mobility during traveling. In this study, a quantitative research method was used and data were collected from a sample of 410 respondents through a questionnaire. Furthermore, this study also took a simulation-based ( n = 10,000) sample size of electric rail vehicle data. The data were analyzed using structural equation modelling. The results revealed that sustainable transportation, climate change technologies, and electric rail vehicles reduce climate change in the ecoregions of China. We conclude that sustainable transportation policies could be formulated and implemented to reduce climate change. In response to the research results, it is recommended that, since climate change is a multi-level governance issue, the outdated pyramidal transport industry models must be shifted to a sustainable transportation system model.

Keywords: sustainability; transportation; climate change; reduced carbon emissions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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