The issue of transportation and the environment is paradoxical in nature. From one side, transportation activities support increasing mobility demands for passengers and freight, and this ranging from urban areas to international trade. On the other side, transport activities have resulted in growing levels of motorization and congestion. As a result, the transportation sector is becoming increasingly linked to environmental problems. With a technology relying heavily on the combustion of hydrocarbons, notably with the internal combustion engine, the impacts of transportation over environmental systems has increased with motorization. This has reached a point where transportation activities are a dominant factor behind the emission of most pollutants and thus their impacts on the environment.
This paper will provide information on the danger of the exhaust from motorcycles. This paper will enumerate the common problems both in the environment and to human beings. Furthermore, the researchers will provide the possible solution for the environmental problems caused by air pollution. Alternative transportation as the main solution for environmental problems.
Meaning of environmentalism
Transportation in the Philippines
Tricycles – motorcycles with a sidecar attached are especially for short trips.
Jeepneys – are used for short and long distances. The jeepneys have mostly fixed routes within big cities and routes from “town to town”
Buses – there are air-conditioned and non-air-conditioned buses
For traveling in the Philippines there are a lot of cheap possibilities. For the long distances on the bigger islands, the buses are the best possibility. Traveling per train is hardly possible, because there is only on one island a railway.
For the shorter distances on all islands (outside and inside towns and cities), people make use of the jeepneys, multicabs and tricycles. In big cities like Manila or Cebu City, the most common