交通领域碳足迹研究综述

气候变化问题引起了全球的高度重视,碳减排和碳循环得到了广泛关注.碳足迹的研究就是在全球气候变暖的背景下提出,它是节能减排的基本量化参数.在碳足迹研究的基础上,对交通领域碳足迹进行专项研究,了解交通领域实现低碳化的潜力和主要影响因素,有利于实现交通领域的节能减排,对实现交通与环境的和谐具有重要作用.文中回顾了交通领域的碳足迹的主要研究,介绍了碳足迹的定义、计算方法以及国内外交通领域现有的研究成果,并对国内外研究进行比较分析,针对我国目前交通碳足迹研究现状和存在的问题,确定进一步的发展方向.目前国内外关于交通领域的碳足迹研究都只是关注交通活动的某一方面,在对碳足迹进行研究时,应扩大研究范围,从多个角度进行,并开拓新的研究方向.

An Overview of Carbon Footprint Research in Transportation

The climate change has attracted a great amount of attention around the worlds thus, carbon emission and carbon cycle have become an issue of wide concern. Carbon footprint affects global warming and it is a basic parameter of energy saving and emission reduction. Special research on carbon footprint in transportation helps understand the potential and the main influencing factors to achieve low carbon, and it advocates energy saving and emission reduction in traffic network and improves the harmony between traffic and the environment. This paper reviews the main carbon foot- print research in transportations it focuses on the definition of carbon footprint, calculation method and the existing re- search results at home and abroad. It compares the domestic and foreign research and, in view of the current state and existing problems on traffic carbon footprint research, identifies the further direction in research and development on this topic. Since the current research of carbon footprint in transportation only focuses on traffic activity, the research scope should be expanded to consider other influencing factors and explore new research directions.