Abstract
The world trade have increased 4.75 times from 1975 to 1992, naturally with which transportation of goods is also increased. It is necessary from an environmental viewpoint to grasp the amount of energy consumption for transportation of international goods. In this paper, the Asian Pacific region, which has been attaining economical development higher than other regions in the world, is taken up for case study and research about the environmental load caused by transportation of goods is performed. It refers 1975, 80, 85, 90, 91, and 92 as an object term of this research. As a calculation result, the amount of energy consumption accompanied by goods transportation with the other countries in this region is: the United States-6, 610, 000 TOE, Japan-4, 980, 000 TOE and China-1, 050, 000 TOE and so on. Moreover, the amount of energy consumption accompanied by the goods transportation in this region increased 2.9 times in the period of 1975 to 1980, 1.4 times from 1980 to 1985, and 2.1 times from 1985 to 1990.
