TY - JOUR
TI - Urban transport energy consumption: Belgrade case study
AU - Jovanović Miomir M
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2015
VL - 19
IS - 6
SP - 2079
EP - 2092
PT - Article
AB - More than half of the global population now lives in towns and cities. At the  same time, transport has become the highest single energy-consuming human  activity. Hence, one of the major topics today is the reduction of urban  transport demand and of energy consumption in cities. In this article we  focused on the whole package of instruments that can reduce energy  consumption and transport demand in Belgrade, a city that is currently at a  major crossroad. Belgrade can prevent a dramatic increase in energy  consumption and CO2 emissions (and mitigate the negative local environmental  effects of traffic congestion, traffic accidents and air pollution), only if  it: 1) implements a more decisive strategy to limit private vehicles use  while its level of car passenger km (PKT) is still relatively low; 2) does  not try to solve its transport problems only by trying to build urban road  infrastructure (bridges and ring roads); and 3) if it continues to provide  priority movement for buses (a dominant form of public transport), while 4)  at the same time developing urban rail systems (metro or LRT) with exclusive  tracks, immune to the traffic congestion on urban streets. [Projekat  Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 37010]