Sustainable Transportation in Future

Sustainable transport refers to the broad subject of transport that is approaches being sustainable. It is includes vehicles, energy, infrastructure, roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals, pipelines and terminal. Transport operations and logistics as well as transit – oriented development are involved. Transportation sustainability is largely being measured by transportation system effectiveness and efficiency as well as the environmental impact of the system.

The basic definition of sustainability has been expanded to include three major points:

• Social equity.

Relates to conditions favoring a distribution of resources among the current generation based upon comparative levels of productivity. This implies that individuals or institutions are free to pursue the ventures of their choice and reaps the rewards for the risk they take and the efforts they make. Social equity should not be confused with welfare programs (socialism) where the productive segment of the population agrees or is coerced to support a non productive segment; this is not equity but redistribution. Thus, central planning and socialism are much at odd with the concept of social equity

• Economic efficiency

Concerns conditions permitting higher levels of economic efficiency in terms of resource and labor usage. It focuses on capabilities, competitiveness, flexibility in production and providing goods and services that supply a market demand. Under such circumstances, factors of production should be freely allocated and markets open to trade.

• Environmental responsibility 

Involves a "footprint" which is lesser than the capacity of the environment to accommodate. This includes the supply of resources (food, water, energy, etc.), but also the safe disposal of numerous forms of wastes. Its core tenets include the conservation and reuse of resource.

• Green transportation

Incremental improvement in fuel efficiency and vehicle emissions controls while long term goals include migrating transportation from fossil – based energy to other alternatives such as renewable resources. The entire life cycle of transport systems is subject to sustainability measurement and optimization.