Total Trip Length on Fuel Consumption
It is strongly required to enhance energy conservation to reduce fossil-fuel consumption to cope with global warming. In Japan, energy consumption in the industrial sector is almost stable after the oil crises. However, the commercial, residential and transportation sectors have a trend of increasing energy consumption. Especially reducing energy consumption in transportation sector is an important issue because it depends mainly on the use of fossil fuel. There are many measures to reduce fuel for transportation, for example, shifting to public transportation from private cars or increasing the number of passengers per trip of each vehicle. In this study, the authors ...
