BEHS 103 PROGRESS REPORT
BEHS 103 Technology in Contemporary Society Week 6 – Progress Report Topic: Transportation and its Impact on Society
Since the industrial revolution mankind has made a great progress in many ways
including transportation. Although the progress has brought about many benefits, like being able
to move from point A to point B faster and not just locally by automobiles, but also on a global
level by aviation and railroad, the benefits came at a grate expense. The greatest price is
manifesting in the scientifically proven climate change and its consequences deriving from
carbon emissions, greenhouse gasses, and air pollution.
In this slideshow we’ll address those consequences by referring to case studies, scholarly
articles, and analysis that shed light on the problem and urges the need for alternative energy
sources. First, we’ll discuss an article published by engineers from University of Zilina, Faculty
of Securing Engineering, in Slovakia by Zdenka Urbancova and Maria Luskova, PhD regarding
railway transportation and its facilities and how they influence the society. Specifically, the
implications of railway operations and power failure that directly impact human population,
infrastructure, environmental issues, and its importance to societies as a whole (Urbancova,
Luskova, 2019). These issues were discussed during an International Multidisciplinary Scientific
Conference on Social Sciences and Arts SGEM.
Second is a collaborative scholarly article that derives from Journal of Cleaner
Production, and is titled Public transportation adaptation requires a paradigm shift in urban
development structure, and cowritten by Tolga Ercan and Omer Tatari from Department of Civil,
Environmental, and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida, USA, Nuri Onat
from Department of Industrial Engineering, Istanbul Sehir University, Turkey, and Jean-Denis
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Mathias from Irstea, UR LISC, Centre de Clemont-Rerand, Aubeire, France. This cross-
referenced article discusses the rise of auto industry in the Unites States due to urban
development and how it impacts public transportation, lack of research data in its regard, and the
possibility to need to implement policies that would increase the use of public transportation in
efforts to limit pollution due to heavy use of vehicles in the US (Ercan, Onat, Tatari, Mathias,
2017).
Third cross referenced article from Science of the Total Environment takes an innovative
approach to reduce air pollutants, greenhouse gases and heat emission driving from means of
transportation. It proposes to launch a testing phase in urban city of San Paulo, Brazil by
replacing internal combustion methods of transportation to light-duty vehicles, trucks, and buses
with electric engines (Ribeiro, Umezaki, Chiquetto, Santos, Machado, Miranda, Almeida,
Mouette, Leichsenring, Ueno, 2021). This could be the beginning to revolutionizing the
transportation industry on national levels, as we know electric vehicles already exist and are well
in use, however, the trick is to find a way to charge the vehicles with an alternative power source,
such as solar panels.
The fourth case study also takes an innovative approach and claims that academic
institutions should take the responsibility to advocate sustainable strategies as its purpose is to
educate, inspire, and produce innovative thinkers. The case study was implemented on Ege
University campus in 2016 that has become eco-friendly to demonstrate that if all campuses
follow the lead it could result with significant reduction of carbon footprint and pollution
emissions Daglioglu (2021).
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Finally, the fifth article addresses the very hot topic of sustainability and the carbon footprint of
oil products pipeline transportation, written by several experts from China, Sweeden, and Japan.
It does a deeper dive regarding climate change due to carbon footprint from oil production
pipeline transportation and presents a detailed Life Cycle Assessment model to analyze carbon
emissions and how it affects soil Huang, Liao, Yan, Liang, Zhang, 2021).
Conclusively, there is scientific evidence that presents dire consequences from the use
and operations of transportation industry and there is dire need to rethink and rebuilt the industry
to stop the climate change and reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
References:
Urbancova, Z., Luskova, M. (2019). Impact of Power Failure on Railway Transport Operation. International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences & Arts SGEM, 6, p. 359–365, https://search-ebscohost-com.ezproxy.umgc.edu/login.aspx? direct=true&db=asn&AN=146228033&site=eds-live&scope=site.
Ercan, T., Onat, N., Tatari, O., Mathias, J-D. (2017). Public transportation adoption requires a paradigm shift in urban development structure. Journal of Cleaner Production, 142(4), 1789- 1799. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.11.109.
Ribeiro, F. N. D., Umezaki, A. S., Chiquetto, J. B., Santos, I., Machado, P. G., Miranda, R. M., Almeida, P. S., Simões, A. F., Mouette, D., Leichsenring, A. R., & Ueno, H. M. (2021). Impact of different transportation planning scenarios on air pollutants, greenhouse gases and heat emission abatement. Science of the Total Environment, 781. https://doi- org.ezproxy.umgc.edu/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146708
Daglioglu, S. (2021). Carbon Footprint Analysis of Ege University within the Scope of Environmental Sustainability. Commagene Journal of Biology, 5(1), 51–58. https://doi- org.ezproxy.umgc.edu/10.31594/commagene.865194
Huang, L., Liao, Q., Yan, J., Liang, Y., & Zhang, H. (2021). Carbon footprint of oil products pipeline transportation. Science of the Total Environment, 783. https://doi- org.ezproxy.umgc.edu/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146906
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