Toward sustainable transportation in developing areas

Abstract EN

Sustainable transportation aims to make best integration of social, economic and environmental conditions for the transportation system.

carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most dangerous and harmful emissions on human life.

developing areas in Egypt like Zagazig city suffers from continuous traffic congestion that product a huge emission daily.

this study tries to achieve three main objectives.

the first objective is daily CO2 emission estimation of urban transportation in Zagazig city.

while determination number of trees required to overcome the daily emissions in Zagazig city are the second objective.

finally, the third objective aims to investigate four hypothetical scenarios to reduce CO2 emission of urban transportation and improve quality of life in Zagazig city.

the study methodology started with determining numbers of generated trips for different motorized transportation modes using Zagazig city transportation database.

fuel consumption factor and CO2 emission factor for different transportation modes were determined based on previous studies.

a visum model was conducted to determine average trips lengths for different travel modes depending on origin-destination matrix for each travel mode in the study area.

analyzing the study results, daily CO2 emission for urban area of Zagazig city was 159.12 ton per day from different transportation modes.

the contribution of private cars, taxi, and microbus in daily CO2 emission were 49.04, 26.39, and 83.69 ton per day.

the study concluded to encourage passengers in Zagazig city to use non-motorized and public transportation modes in daily trips leads to considered decreasing CO2 emission and produce sustainable transportation.