Emissions from India’s transport sector: Statewise synthesis

Ramachandra, TV and Shwetmala, * (2009) Emissions from India’s transport sector: Statewise synthesis. In: Atmospheric Environment, 43 (34). pp. 5510-5517.

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Abstract

A decentralized emission inventories are prepared for road transport sector of India in order to design and implement suitable technologies and policies for appropriate mitigation measures. Globalization and liberalization policies of the government in 90's have increased the number of road vehicles nearly 92.6% from 1980–1981 to 2003–2004. These vehicles mainly consume non-renewable fossil fuels, and are a major contributor of green house gases, particularly CO2 emission. This paper focuses on the statewise road transport emissions (CO2, CH4, CO, NOx, N2O, SO2, PM and HC), using region specific mass emission factors for each type of vehicles. The country level emissions (CO2, CH4, CO, NOx, N2O, SO2 and NMVOC) are calculated for railways, shipping and airway, based on fuel types. In India, transport sector emits an estimated 258.10 Tg of CO2, of which 94.5% was contributed by road transport (2003–2004). Among all the states and Union Territories, Maharashtra's contribution is the largest, 28.85 Tg (11.8%) of CO2, followed by Tamil Nadu 26.41 Tg (10.8%), Gujarat 23.31 Tg (9.6%), Uttar Pradesh 17.42 Tg (7.1%), Rajasthan 15.17 Tg (6.22%) and, Karnataka 15.09 Tg (6.19%). These six states account for 51.8% of the CO2 emissions from road transport.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Atmospheric Environment
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier Science.
Keywords:	Greenhouse gases;Emission;India;Transport sector;Globalization
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Ecological Sciences
Date Deposited:	10 Oct 2011 08:33
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2011 08:33
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/41315

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