{"id":188,"date":"2012-01-19T03:45:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T03:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/?p=188"},"modified":"2012-01-19T03:47:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T03:47:13","slug":"rail-transport-and-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/01\/19\/rail-transport-and-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail Transport and the Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: small\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: small\">Compiled jointly by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cer.be\/\">Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies <\/a>(CER) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/uic.org\/\">International Union of Railways<\/a> (UIC) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etc-corporate.org\/resources\/uploads\/railways&amp;environment_facts&amp;figures.pdf\">Rail Transport and Environment: Facts and Figures<\/a> makes a compelling case for the environmental impacts of rail compared to road or plane travel. The article clearly lays out easy to understand numbers and breaks the issues down into sections: climate change and CO<\/span><\/span><sub><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: x-small\">2<\/span><\/sub><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"> emissions, energy efficiency, electricity mix, land take, local air pollution, noise emissions, subsidies and external cost, and core statistics from European transport. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-197\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/01\/train.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"96\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: small\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: small\">Rail outperforms road and air travel in almost every category. Consuming on average three to ten times less CO<\/span><\/span><sub><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: x-small\">2<\/span><\/sub><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\"> than road and air travel, rail presents a much less CO<\/span><sub><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: x-small\">2<\/span><\/sub><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: small\"> intensive means of transportation. Road and aviation transportation averages two to five times the amount of energy than rail transportation. Consuming fewer resources continues when the land required to run a train is examined; railway infrastructure occupies two to three times less land per passenger or freight unit than other modes of transportation. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">When the prospect of all electric trains are considered rail is even more appealing since electric cars and planes are not feasible on a large scale at this time. Electric trains produce no local air pollution, and if produced using renewable energy sources the electricity required to run a train does not produce the long term resource scarcities that are on the doorstep for fossil fuel powered road and air transportation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Compiled jointly by the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) and the International Union of Railways (UIC) Rail Transport and Environment: Facts and Figures makes a compelling case for the environmental impacts of rail compared to road &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/01\/19\/rail-transport-and-the-environment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}