STUDY AND ASSESSMENT OF CARBON EMISSION FROM SELECTED TRANSPORTATION METHOD IN LANGKAWI

Abstract

The continuous growing of transportation to accommodate the needs of future and economics has driven most countries into the limits of expanding of their transportation modes. The growing of technology helps fast forwarded the evolution of transportation. In doing so, the world has also created a problem that affects the environment. The constant increase of transportation has cause the emission level of Greenhouse Gases to increase along. This project will be focusing on determining the major sources of carbon emission from transport such as land transportation and sea transportation. In doing so, the research will be focusing in Langkawi due to the effort of the Malaysian Government to gain the title of low carbon island. Prior to that, this research also will answer three research objectives’ which are to collect the data on number of vehicles and vessels from the selected area, to analyse the data and estimate the distribution of emission and finally to determine the major source of emission from land and sea based transportation. Discussion on the result will be justified and recommendation will be suggested to help future research.