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Transportation is vital to economic and social development, but at the same time generates undesired consequences on local, regional, and global scales. One of the largest challenges is the mitigation of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, to which this sector already contributes [...]

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The transport sector offers limited options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as compared with other sectors, such as power generation and industrial sectors. To understand the potential reduction of energy consumption and associated emissions through fuel substitution or transportation [...]

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The priority of EU transport strategy is to decrease the negative environmental impacts of all transport modes. This paper evaluates the energy intensity of passenger car as a representative of road transport and a diesel train unit as vehicle of railway transport. Authors use a software [...]