Reduction of Co2 Emission from Transportation Sector by Utilizing ITS Technologies

A response to environmental issues is one of the things society is asking of ITS, and especially the reduction of CO2 emissions from the transportation sector is a major theme. In Japan the “Transportation and Logistics Renaissance” project was launched last year by the public sector, private sector, and academia. This project aims to cut congestion, CO2 emissions, and logistics costs by half and to reduce traffic fatalities to zero by 2020. We have been considering a way of upgrading logistics systems and have been estimating the effect of that upgrade as an activity of the transportation and logistics renaissance project. In this paper, the results of our study on a way of improving the logistics system and a way of using ITS technologies which are indispensable for achieving the goals are presented.