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Decreasing Fuel Consumption and Exhaust Gas Emissions in Transportation

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Instead of a quick revolution, new technologies will slowly evolve in all sectors of transportation. However, customers need sustainable, high quality transport at a reasonable price worldwide (http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch8en/conc8en/ch8c2en.html).

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Palocz-Andresen, M. (2013). Future Transportation Systems. In: Decreasing Fuel Consumption and Exhaust Gas Emissions in Transportation. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11976-7_17

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