Environmental impacts of railway transportation systems

摘要

The transport plays an important role in everyday life, and has significant economic, environmental influence globally but it also has direct health effect on societies' life. Nowadays when the climate change represents real challenge for the world to try to ensure an environmentally more sustainable future, the researchers and the political leaders are looking for renewable energy sources and environmentally friendly systems to reduce the air -, noise pollution, the energy consumption, etc. The aim of this paper is to compare railway transportation system with other means of transportation, on regional and European level, emphasizing its unexploited sources and advantages over other systems.