A considerable resource footprint is taken up by our need for mobility. In particular, two resource types are used: the materials to build transport technologies and vehicles like cars, trains and airplanes; plus, predominantly, the fossil fuels burned to power them.
Consists of:
🚗 Reduce travel
Telecommuting
Reduced cargo shipping (for example, due to more local consumption)
Saving: 2.41 Gt emissions and 1.96 Gt material use
🚗 Improve vehicle utilisation
Fuel-efficient driving
Car pooling-sharing
Saving: 1.83 Gt emissions and 1.64 Gt material use
🚗 Circular vehicles
Recycle vehicles at end-of-use
Use recycled metal and plastics for vehicles
Saving: 1.50 Gt emissions and 3.33 Gt material use
🚗 Vehicles durability
Set fiscal and financial incentives for remanufacturing, refurbishing, repairing or upgrading vehicles
Reuse of motor vehicle components
Durable vehicle design and production
Optimal vehicle repair and maintenance
Saving: 1.23 Gt emissions and 2.18 Gt material use
🚗 Vehicle design improvements
Vehicle lightweighting (reduced demand for metal input into the vehicle manufacturing industry
Increased fuel efficiency
Autonomous driving (safer driving requires less need for crash-resistant cars)
Use smaller cars
Saving: 1.22 Gt emissions and 1.24 Gt material use
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