MEASURES TO REDUCE TRANSPORTATION GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN ROMANIA

Emilia Vasile (), Mariana Balan, Gheorghe-Stelian Balan and Iwona Grabara
Additional contact information
Mariana Balan: “Athenaeum” University Bucharest
Gheorghe-Stelian Balan: “Athenaeum” University Bucharest
Iwona Grabara: Czestochowa University of Technology

Polish Journal of Management Studies, 2012, vol. 6, issue 1, 215-223

Abstract: The greenhouse gas emissions from transport have registered a severe increase over the years about 23% of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions resulted from burning fossil fuels worldwide. In this context, it is observed the increasing need to shift to sustainable transport patterns for taking into consideration a wide-scale use of alternative energy sources (e.g. bio-fuels, biogas) and also, the investments in environmental technologies research and development etc. Romania has a national transport system situated on average level in terms of conventional standards of Europe's transport system. But, it was noted that the infrastructure of roads, railways, maritime and air transport is vulnerable in terms of extreme weather conditions. Considering the indirect effects of climate change, they are manifested by deteriorating road and rail infrastructure. The paper presents some of the measures adapted by Romania to reduce the greenhouse emissions produced by the transport sector. The adaptation of the Romanian transport sector to climate change impacts should take into account the use of technologies by focusing on increased safety standards, and ensuring continuity of services. In order to implement these measures it is increased the need to invest into designing vehicles that can withstand the adverse effects of climate change. The new transport infrastructure and means of transport should be designed, beginning with the design phase, in order to be resilient to the effects of the climate change.

Keywords: transport; greenhouse gas emissions; reducing emissions from transport (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.pjms.zim.pcz.pl/PDF/PJMS6/MEASURESTORED ... ISSIONSINROMANIA.pdf (application/pdf)
http://pjms.zim.pcz.pl/measures-to-reduce-transpor ... ions-in-romania-.php (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pcz:journl:v:6:y:2012:i:1:p:215-223

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Polish Journal of Management Studies from Czestochowa Technical University, Department of Management Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Paula Bajdor ().