Abstract:

Rapid motorization across the globe has caused a steady increase in the transport sector, which accounted for about 23% of total worldwide CO2 emission in 2005. About 73% of total CO2 was generated by road transport. Malaysian government aims to reduce CO2 emissions. However, the high increase in private car ownership made the transport sector as the largest contributor of CO2 in Malaysia, contradicted with the above policy. The objectives of this study are: (i) To estimate CO2 emissions level generated by passenger road transport (ii) To identify the countermeasures solution to reduce CO2 emissions and (iii) To formulate transportation policy to reduce CO2 emissions. Iskandar Malaysia (IM) is chosen as study case and it covers an area about 2,216.3 km2. The study involved developing questionnaire that would focus on elements that generated carbon dioxide such as trips make by the users, passenger per car, kilometer travel per day, fuel consumption, fuel types and car per household. This study used questionnaire interview of 300 samples in IM region. In this study, there are two different scenarios; Scenario A known as Business as Usual (BAU) and Scenario B as Green Development to be implemented by 2025.