Implementation of energy aspects into road design for promotion of sustainable transport

Reduction of non-renewable energy sources consumption in transport significantly relates to increasing energy efficiency during construction and operation of roads. In the contribution there are presented results of selected projects being carried out by Centrum dopravniho vyzkumu (Transport Research Centre, Czech Republic), which are focused on integrating energy aspects into road design. The most important of them are as follows: the international project "Integration of the Measurement of Energy Usage into Road Design" (IERD) in the frame fo the SAVE programme - the programme of the European Union aimed at promotion of increasing energy efficiency and savings in particular sectors including transport, and also the national project "Transport and Environment" launched by the Czech Ministry of Transport. These project are focused on increasing energy efficiency and savings in road designs, the aim is to facilitate and promote integrating energy aspects into this field. Energy issues relating to route selection, construction energy usage and vehicle energy usage are respected. Reduction of construction and vehicle energy consumption represents the contribution to reducing environmental burden resulted from transport and thus to promoting its sustainability.