DOI: 10.5937/jaes15-12173
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Volume 15 article 413 pages: 53 - 60
Transport is responsible for 30 % of all greenhouse
gas emissions in Slovenia. Companies specialized in transport are challenged
with seeking solutions how to reduce the pollution from their fleets on one
side and reducing costs and increasing efficiency on the other. Greening the
companies fleets is in rise all over the world. Beside reducing the costs the
environmental issues such as carbon footprint is becoming more and more
important for company.s image. This paper is based on a research study of
company Avtosteklo Ltd. Their primary activity is replacement of windscreens on
vehicles which is often done at customers. homes or at their work places
therefore company owns a fleet of 24 vehicles in 5 branches across Slovenia
with huge amount of annually driven kilometres and consequently high carbon
emissions. Calculations on their current fuel costs and released carbon dioxide
were examined and cross-compared. Results showed that 78,9 tons of carbon
dioxide is released in one month of their operations. Main goal of this paper is
therefore to present possible positive effects of replacement of conventional
vehicles with alternative ones. After reviewing and analysing several
possibilities we have suggested replacement of conventional cars with electric ones
as a long term solution since they don.t release carbon dioxide in use phase.
In order to identify the best solutions we have proposed also replacement of
vehicles for long relations with vehicles on compressed natural gas. The study
also showed significant impacts on reduction of fuel costs and vehicles
maintaining.
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