Approach to the Proecological Distribution of the Traffic Flow on the Transport Network from the Point of View of Carbon Dioxide

Gołębiowski, Piotr; Żak, Jolanta; Jacyna-Gołda, Ilona

doi:10.3390/su12176936

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Approach to the Proecological Distribution of the Traffic Flow on the Transport Network from the Point of View of Carbon Dioxide

Piotr Gołębiowski

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Jolanta Żak

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Ilona Jacyna-Gołda

Faculty of Transport, Warsaw University of Technology, 00-662 Warsaw, Poland

Faculty of Production Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, 00-662 Warsaw, Poland

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Sustainability 2020, 12(17), 6936; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12176936

Received: 25 July 2020 / Revised: 19 August 2020 / Accepted: 24 August 2020 / Published: 26 August 2020

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)

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Nowadays, apart from travel time and cost, more and more attention is paid to ensuring that ecological footprint of the means of transport used for a journey is as small as possible. Therefore, it is reasonable to look for methods and solutions that will allow planning communication connections according to the principles of sustainable development. The aim of the article was to present mathematical model of the proecological distribution of traffic flow into a network, together with a determination of how the amount of emissions of harmful compounds for rail transport will be calculated (based on amount of energy necessary for movement, calculated on circumference of the wheels). The model has been verified on real data. The traffic flow was distributed over a selected communication route: Warszawa—Gdansk, where the criterion was minimization of total carbon dioxide emissions. An evolutionary method implemented in Microsoft Excel was used to solve the optimization problem. For the analysis of only the fastest connections, the railway one was the optimal from the point of view of the adopted criteria. After the train capacity was exceeded, air and car connections were loaded. Based on the research, a function that represents the amount of carbon dioxide emissions in the analyzed traffic route depending on the size of the traffic flow was developed. View Full-Text

Keywords: traffic flow; traffic flow distribution; carbon dioxide; evolutionary method; sustainable development; proecology

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Gołębiowski, P.; Żak, J.; Jacyna-Gołda, I. Approach to the Proecological Distribution of the Traffic Flow on the Transport Network from the Point of View of Carbon Dioxide. Sustainability 2020, 12, 6936. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12176936

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Gołębiowski P, Żak J, Jacyna-Gołda I. Approach to the Proecological Distribution of the Traffic Flow on the Transport Network from the Point of View of Carbon Dioxide. Sustainability. 2020; 12(17):6936. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12176936

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Gołębiowski, Piotr, Jolanta Żak, and Ilona Jacyna-Gołda. 2020. "Approach to the Proecological Distribution of the Traffic Flow on the Transport Network from the Point of View of Carbon Dioxide" Sustainability 12, no. 17: 6936. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12176936

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