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An Evaluation of Measures for the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Automobile Traffic in Central Tokyo

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This study aims to evaluate measures for the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from automobile traffic in the 23-ward district of Tokyo (central Tokyo), Japan, using the methods of spatial analysis by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and statistical analysis. All of the measures to prevent global warming in Japan were first investigated to extract nine measures to reduce CO2 emissions and then classified into the three groups. Secondly, using the GIS functions for database creation and information analysis, a digital map databases reflecting the real situation of automobile traffic in the study area was created. Using this database, the reduction of CO2 emissions was calculated before and after the implementation of the above nine measures (2005 and 2011) in each road unit. Furthermore, in order to evaluate these measures, the situation of the reduction of CO2 emissions was visualized in each road unit on the digital maps using GIS, and the CO2 emissions before and after the implementation effects of the above nine measures were grasped by t-tests using R language. Based on the evaluation results, it was clear that CO2 emissions are the highest on the main roads in the city center, while the roads with a high reduction of CO2 emissions differed according to each measure. It was also found that all the above nine measures were effective, except for the promotion of eco-drive for small-size automobile. This is because, in the case of small-size automobiles, the diffusion rate of eco-drive did not increase greatly, the reduction effect of CO2 emission was small, and the reduction of CO2 emissions by fuel consumption was low.

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  1. Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka Chofu-shi, Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan

    Kayoko Yamamoto

  2. Graduate School of Information Systems, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka Chofu-shio, Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan

    Kuangtiao Shen

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  1. Department of Business Administration, Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia, Serres, Greece

    Athanasia Karakitsiou

  2. Industrial Logistics, Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

    Athanasios Migdalas

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    Stamatina Th. Rassia

  4. Deparment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

    Panos M. Pardalos

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Yamamoto, K., Shen, K. (2017). An Evaluation of Measures for the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Automobile Traffic in Central Tokyo. In: Karakitsiou, A., Migdalas, A., Rassia, S., Pardalos, P. (eds) City Networks. Springer Optimization and Its Applications, vol 128. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65338-9_4

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