280 World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2013
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Mitigation of green house gases emission and energy
consumption for transport sector: a fuzzy-AHP
approach
Anand Bisen
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Kalaniketan Polytechnic College Jabalpur,
Jabapur, 482001 India
E-mail: anandbisen.knpc@gmail.com
Prakash Verma
Department of Industrial and Production Engineering,
Jabalpur Engineering College Jabalpur,
Jabapur, 482011 India
E-mail: pvjbp@yahoo.com
Alok Chaube
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Jabalpur Engineering College Jabalpur,
Jabapur, 482011 India
E-mail: alokchaube@rediffmail.com
Rajeev Jain*
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Kalaniketan Polytechnic College Jabalpur,
Jabapur, 482001 India
E-mail: jainrajeev@rediffmail.com
*Corresponding author
Abstract: The green house gas emission has sharply increased in the past
several decades from transport sector. The policy options in transportation
sector primarily focus on the reduction of green house gas emission through the
reduction of underlying activity (i.e., travel). Several transportation sector
policies have been proposed in the literature. In order to examine relative
importance of these policies, a fuzzy-AHP approach has been used. This
facilitates the choice of viable policies to mitigate green house gas emission
from the transport sector. The analysis indicated that the policy applying an
integrated model of transport planning and land use pattern change is the policy
of prime importance. Further there is an exigency for development of advanced
information technology for transport sector in the present scenario.
Keywords: fuzzy analytic hierarchy process; transport policies; city logistics;
green house gases; GHG; emission reduction.