Greenhouse Gas Emission Avoidance from Active Transport Mode Shift

The purpose of this paper is to develop a mathematical modelling that quantify greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions avoidance in the context of urban mobility by substituting short car trips with active transport. This paper presents a travel mode choice study that focuses on active transport, public transport, motorcycles and car trips in the neighbourhoods within Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The study collected 1,290 trips characteristics from 415 respondents. A total of 142,352.52 [[EQUATION]] or 108.0 [[EQUATION]] of greenhouse gases were released by automobiles from the collected travel trips data. The result shows active transport could be potentially substitute for 51.7% of short car trips, realistically able to achieve nearly 15% reduction in the total GHG emissions. The findings of this paper could provide an environmental impact assessment that may be useful in developing proposals for practical planning, policies, and strategies targeted at reducing GHG emissions from the road transport sector