More Than Just The Tailpipe: Calculating The True Environmental Cost Of Travel

Monday, June 8, 2009 - 07:14 in Mathematics & Economics

Trains, planes, buses and automobiles do not only effect the environment via their exhaust pipes. There is a full lifecycle of processes associated with getting from A to B that we rarely acknowledge. Researchers have now created a framework to help us calculate the true environmental cost of travel.

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