Measures in Transporting

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Short-Term and Long-Term Measures


Political decision-makers inevitably have short time horizons; in fact, it is difficult for them to have concerns beyond the next election! Consequently, they are unlikely to be excited about packages that only contain long-term measures and distant visions.


On the other hand, if there are also politically attractive short-term measures, then the addition of long-term measures confers on them a visionary character. In other words, long-term visions become acceptable if they are appended to short-term attractions.


The short-term measures consist mainly of better maintenance, better driving practices, optimal routing of buses, dedicated routes for buses with traffic restrictions on these dedicated routes, special lanes for slow traffic, supply constraint on personal vehicles, export orientation to the production of personal vehicles, removal of kerosene and diesel subsidies, no long-haul truck permits, increase of truck taxes and shift of passengers traveling less than 300 km from rail to bus. It is obvious that many of these measures can be implemented at very low cost.



In the case of vehicles, the long-term measures consist mainly of increases in fuel efficiency, introduction of lower-power bus engines, increases in number of buses and/or suburban trains, investments on mass transportation infrastructure, home electrification, improvement of rail freight operations, truck-rail freight linkage, introduction of CNG for urban fleets, switches to biomass-derived fuels for transportation, biomass-derived fuels as petrol and diesel extenders, silviculture for biomass-derived fuels, and alternative cooking fuels and/or devices to replace kerosene.
 
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