Development and impact of fuel economy standards and labels for heavy duty vehicles in Iran / Mahdi Ghazvini
Nowadays, motor-vehicles are one the largest consumer of fossil fuels in the world. The transportation sector has the second largest contribution in oil production consumption in Iran. At this time more than 22% of oil productions are consumed by heavy motor-vehicles in transportation sector in I...
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/8016/ http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/8016/1/Research_Project_%2D_KGH100011.pdf |
| Summary: | Nowadays, motor-vehicles are one the largest consumer of fossil fuels in the
world. The transportation sector has the second largest contribution in oil production
consumption in Iran. At this time more than 22% of oil productions are consumed by
heavy motor-vehicles in transportation sector in Iran. Fuel saving initiatives such as the
fuel economy standards and labels program for motor-vehicles in transportation section
has been applied as purpose of decreasing the fuel consumption in many developed
countries around the world. Many researched have been done on energy efficiency
standards but there are few studies on economic analysis of potential efficiency
improvement.
In this study represents the fuel economy standards and labels programs for
heavy motor-vehicles. The study found the savings has exceeded the investment cost
and the program has reduced emissions caused by burning fossil fuel. The purpose of
the energy labels is to provide the consumers a guideline to purchasing the most
efficient motor-vehicles in market. This research has also investigated the influence of
implementing the fuel economy standards and labels program on the fuel savings,
economic savings and in addition the influence on the environment.
Consider to the increasing of the quantity of motor vehicles in the country, many
advantages will come for the society as well as the environment by using the fuel
economy standards and labels program. It is predicted that by implementing this
program approximately 9.3 billion liters of fuel will be saved from 2013 to 2018 also
the calculated savings is about 43,802 billion in bill. The emission of carbon dioxide
will decrease with the amount of around 19 million tons. Therefore, efficiency
improvement of heavy motor-vehicles will give a significant impact in the future of fuel
consumption in Iran. Furthermore, it has been found that implementing fuel economy
standards and labels for heavy motor-vehicles causes to decrease the green house gas
emissions. |
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