no120-125

[125] Low-carbon assessment of Green Slow Mobility vehicles based on their utilisation

○Shreyas Pradhan¹, Takehito Ujihara², Masanori Okada¹, Hirofumi Hori² (1. Okayama University, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, 2. Okayama University)

Keywords:Green Slow Mobility vehicles, transport mode change, low-carbon assessment, well-to-wheel analysis

This paper presents a well-to-wheel (WtW) analysis on whether transport mode change caused by the introduction of Green Slow Mobility vehicles (GSMs) contributes to the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. The estimations found that in Toin-cho and Tomo-cho – the two areas selected for this study – emissions from GSMs were lower than that from conventional means of transport. These results suggest that the implementation of GSMs in the two towns were instrumental in reducing CO₂ emissions. In addition, this study found that more than 5.3% and 11.7% of passengers in Toin-cho and Tomo-cho respectively are required to fully convert from private vehicles to GSMs in order for the latter to be assessed as low-carbon. Furthermore, due to the difference in factors such as vehicle types and operation modes, per capita emissions from GSMs in Tomo-cho were 3.2 times higher than that in Toin-cho.