Carbon Footprint for Transportation Activities of An Institutional Campus

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  • U.P. Bhautmage M.Tech student at Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
  • A.R. Tembhurkar
  • A. Sable
  • S. Sinha
  • S. Adarsh

Abstract

Global climate change is the greatest concern nowadays, thus many companies and organizations are estimating the carbon footprint to assess their own contribution to the global temperature risings. Travel is a significant source of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions as, for each gallon of gasoline burnt, almost nine kilogram of carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. With rapid urbanization, motorization remains one of the major options for transportation in the bigger cities. This increasing motorization and demand for mobility have contributed to the increased carbon footprint due to travel. With unprecedented increase in motorization, it is imperative to estimate and analyze on CO2 emission due to travel so as to make various decisions for reducing carbon footprint in the transportation sector. In the present study, a survey is done to delineate contributing factors leading to carbon footprint due to transportation activities of an educational institute's campus like Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) at Nagpur. An algorithm is developed for estimating the carbon footprint, especially due to transportation activities of the campus. Based on this, a soft tool is further developed to calculate the carbon footprint. The overall carbon footprint for VNIT campus due to vehicle transportation in the academic year 2011-12 is estimated to be 1604.23 ton/year, which is relatively less as compared to other major institutional campuses worldwide.Keywords: Carbon dioxide, carbon footprint, transportation activities, institutional campus, greenhouse gasCite this Article: Bhautmag UP, Tembhurkar AR, Sable A, et al. Compaction carbon footprint for transportation activities of an institutional campus. Journal of Energy, Environment & Carbon Credits. 2015; 5(1): 9-19p.

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  • U.P. Bhautmage, M.Tech student at Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
    Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

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2015-03-14

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