Saving Energy in U.S. Transportation

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Fuel conservation
  • Highway transportation
  • Passenger transportation
  • Light vehicles
  • Trucking
  • Technological forecasting
  • State of the art reports
  • Energy conservation measures
  • Energy security
  • Oil dependency
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  GPO stock #052-003-01376-2 ; OTA-ETI-589
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1403352
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Princeton University
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION ; NTL-FREIGHT-Trucking Industry ; NTL-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
• Description:
  This report was prepared as the final part of an Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) assessment on "U.S. Energy Efficiency: Past Trends and Future Opportunities." This report focuses on energy use in U.S. transportation, which accounts for over 60 percent of U.S. oil consumption. The report examines the current status of the system and evaluating critical problems such as congestion, presenting forecasts of future energy use, making some pointed comparisons with European transportation, and describing and evaluating a range of options for saving energy. 274p.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/12712/dot_12712_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.02 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:0a4b3942ff0cce851bc4e3b88d49b31cf93e3bea837f2f1af6485874b86c58dc