Inviting Innovations in Transportation

 

Did nature create the human beings or did the human beings create nature? Which is the true answer? However, the relative importance belongs to both of them. One is relying upon the other. They are like true friends indeed. However, the days that we are having now reveal the harshest fact that man is polluting the other, that is, nature as much as possible. But why does he do so? There is truly no perfect and absolute answer to this question.

Human beings are components of the natural environment. That is to say, man and nature are interrelated to each other. Everything benevolent happens because of this relationship. Broadly speaking, whenever this tie or this bond gets disturbed, everything will collapse in the wink of an eye.

It can be said that science and nature walk hand in hand. Frankly speaking, science is more dependent on nature, not merely because of the components helpful for scientific discovery but also for the execution of the scientific formulae.

Unfortunately, now-a-days, every scientific process, it may rather be said that every scientific attitude of man contaminates the environment. It is truly unimaginable that the human beings are treacherous to their origin, that is, nature.

Man is becoming more and more developed, more and more civilized in his own way, sometimes with his scientific inventions and sometimes with his easy approach to taint nature. He invented various kinds of transports, and at the same time, various kinds of green house gases like Carbon dioxide, Nitrous oxide, Trichlorofluromethane, Carbon tetrachloride, Fluoroform, Methane and so on and so forth, not just to pollute his environment but even to dig his own grave indirectly.

At present, transportation epitomizes around 10% of the gross domestic product in the United States of America, according to Research Innovative Technology Administration 2012, 3 – 3. Moreover, transportation is necessary to many aspects of the economy of the USA. It incorporates transportation of people to reach their employment, or other ends. However, transportation takes into its account of 28% of the emission of the greenhouse gases in the USA in 2012, as per the knowledge of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2013.

Moreover, the emissions from transportation sector are expected to increase hastily within the next few decades. The International Energy Agency (IEA) propounds that the use of energy and consequently the emissions of carbon dioxide will rise about between 2000 and 2030. The developing countries like China and Indonesia and so on will fall victim to this phenomenon greatly; the emissions in those countries may get doubled between 2000 and 2020. These basically occur due to increase of personal travel and goods movement, and apart from these, use of fossil fuels for these purposes.

Day by day, urbanization is taking the prior place more and more. In the urban areas, not only the factories but even the transports are emitting Carbon dioxide. People consume fuel electrical power and resulting in, they increase the number of their carbon footprints.

Fortunately, at the present times, some measures are being taken against pollution and climate change due to the emission of greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide mitigation measures to urban transport projects are being undertaken that offer the scopes for improving the cost-effectiveness of mobility investments.

In the meantime, Japan has taken some stratagems for leading the Fourth Industrial Revolution. “Japan Revitalization Strategy” got revised in 2015, and decided at the cabinet meeting on June 30, 2015. The country has expressed a few basic approaches for dominant sectors. First, comprehending the directions of world technology and industries and strategies of leading companies may be helpful. Second, analyzing Japan’s strengths and weaknesses and thus endeavoring to improve may come to an aid. Third, sharing the strategies all over Japan for government, private sectors and research institutes may be helpful as well.

Apart from that, there are transportation technologies and stratagems that are commencing their journey for helping to meet the climate change. These technologies and strategies include automotive and fuel technologies, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and mobility management strategies for reduce the demand for private vehicles. The climate change beneficence of innovative engine and transport technologies are, however, comprehended. Yet there are a very few or a small number of studies that are available on the energy and carbon dioxide emission.

Intelligent transportation system (ITS) can curtail fuel consumptions and emissions by reducing congestion, smoothing the progress of optimal route planning and timing, perfecting accelerations or decelerations, permitting pricing and demand management stratagems, bettering the public transportation mode use, and so on and so forth.

Now the question is – What is innovation? It is nothing but a central notion of economic development and is perceived as a key driver of a company’s success. From the organizational point of view, innovation is essential for creating new scopes or for ruining the existing ones in order to survive in challenging the dynamism. Furthermore, technological as well as organizational innovations may be considered as fundamental novelties or changes for betterment.

Therefore, the solutions to these problems need to be discovered by the people themselves. They can use solar energy, wind energy, atomic energy, and tidal energy and so on. When fossil fuels have invited a great curse all over the world, some alternative energy should be found out. At present, many companies have shifted from using fossil fuel energies to the utilization of solar energy.

It must be said that whatever the circumstances are, whatever the innovations may be, all the human beings must work shoulder to shoulder for the entire world, because world cannot be composed of a number of counties and their barriers only but with the help of brotherhood that can break the barricades of the nations to make them a unified whole. All the fragments of the jigsaw puzzle should be harmonized to make them a complete and beautiful picture. Only then the whole world will become a better place for living with less pollution and more innovation, and for that people should take steps with much immediacy.