Abstract:

Carbon footprint is formed as a result of the use of internal combustion, mostly diesel engine vehicles, in passenger and freight transport activities in urban and intercity transportation. Depending on the type of fuel used in road passenger and freight transport vehicles and the amount of consumption, carbon dioxide gas is emitted into the atmosphere. This gas is one of the gases that cause the formation of the greenhouse effect. One of the most important sources of exhaust gas emissions causing air pollution is internal combustion engine vehicles. Increasing urban air pollution as a result of the use of fossil fuels is closely related to the CO2 emissions released from public transportation vehicles, which are a part of our daily life. For this reason, reducing gas emissions from public transport gains importance in the fight against air pollution and climate change. This study was conducted to measure the CO2 emissions released from a selected public transport vehicle as an example. Fuel consumption and passenger transportation data for February 2020 of the public transportation vehicle used on line 7 in Tekirdağ, Çorlu urban transportation were collected. This line has 55 stops. Using this collected data, the carbon footprint of the public transportation vehicle was calculated with the Tier-1 approach of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Methodology. Total fuel consumption for February 2020 is 3189.28 liters, and 0.0082 Gg of CO2 emissions have been calculated in the calculation made with the Tier-1 method. This equates to 8.2 tons of CO2 emissions. It has been determined that 0.276 kilograms of CO2 carbon dioxide emissions per passenger carried.

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