Transportation in Asia: 2030

Boeing – 9000 new commercial jets for Asia- Pacific region by 2028

Boeing – Asia- Pacific region to represent 40% of world’s aviation passenger market

Automobile industry – China and India will rank 1 and 3 respectively as the world’s largest automobile industries by 2030

Currently China produces 13 million cars and by 2030 it would have produced 62 million cars.

Meanwhile, India produced 2.5 million cars in 2009 and would have +20 million cars in 2030

Railways – There would be a visible development of high speed rail links to create low-carbon alternatives to short- haul flight.

Waterways – Asia has 37 waterways. The scarcity of clean water and increasing levels of on-land transportation is going to shift a major part of transport dependency on water transportation, in the near future.

As a whole, current ownership of private automobiles is 650 million units. By 2050 private ownership would be 3 billion units. I wonder from where these units are going to be produced and sold, as, American and European automobile markets are already exhausted. Irrespective of growing demand from BRIICS (Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa) nations, 3 billion is too great a number for the earth to bear.

Here is a little futuristic fact – Transport related carbon dioxide emissions are to increase by 58% to 2030.

There is a need for innovations in the transport sector. The transport sector needs to become sustainable through – technology, government policies, pricing, integrated systems management, and this must be done urgently!

This upload is a gathered piece of information from – The Time Magazine, Global Asia and from www.oecd.org