Abstract
Now, environmental disruption of the global warming, etc. by greenhouse gas is a important problem for us. Therefore, many studies on the modal shift to marine transport or a railroad have been made. However, the modal shift is not still promoted. Then, we examine possibility of freightage by the Shinkansen as a new means of transport. In this paper, the action of the shipper who chooses a means of transport by Minimum Sacrifice Model is expressed, and the cargo volume transported in Tokaido and San'yo Shinkansen is calculated. As a result, the total cargo volume transported by Shinkansen is about 90, 000 tons during three days. The quantity of this freightage will become about 106 formations per day, if one formation is converted as 288 tons. Therefore, since sufficient demand was forecasted, it turned out that there is possibility of freightage using the Shinkansen. And based on this result, the calculation result of the quantity of cuts of CO2 was shown, and the effectiveness of the freightage using the Shinkansen was shown from an environmental viewpoint. The cut of CO2 becomes 13.4% of the value of the target by a modal shift.
