기후변화 대응을 위한 UIC 철도교통의 정책동향

초록

Energy consumption in transportation takes about 20 % of the world energy consumption, and fossil fuel captures 80% in the above 20%, also carbon emission by fuel consumption from transportation is 23% of the world carbon emission. It is assumed that transportation energy regarding carbon emission is increased 1.7% every year from 2004 to 2030. Since greenhouse gas of railway compared with that of transportation is comparatively small, it is expected that railway system plays very important role to prevent from greenhouse gas in transportation. In other words, it is possible to say that greenhouse gas emission from transportation has direct relations with the policy of the road traffic and its mechanisms. The reason is in that greenhouse gas emission from railway is only 2% of the total greenhouse gas emission from transportation, on the other hand the road traffic takes 73%. Such statistics shows that it is necessary for railway to be recognized as one of the important approaches for the sustainable development of the transportation and also they means that railway plays very important role in challenges to achieve the goals of the greenhouse gas reduction. Therefore, in this paper railway traffic policies in UIC are presented to cope with International Framework Convention on Climate Change.