| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 地理學系 === 100 === Abstract
“Sustainability” a kind of conceptual noun, is the same as “sustainable development”. Research workers usually estimate the degree of sustainability by quantified measure. “Ecological footprint” is just the sort of tools which is used to estimate whether some area or some consumption towards or backwards the sustainable development. This research works on ecological footprint, it estimates the sustainability of Kaohsiung City before annexation with Kaohsiung County. According to the characteristic of Kaohsiung, the paper focuses on its energy and transportation sustainability. To go on one step further, between private vehicles and public transportation, the paper discusses which of the two fits sustainability more and works efficiently by using “per captia footprint” and “per captia passenger-kilometers footprint”. The results show that the energy footprint per captia in Kaohsiung is bigger than the average in Taiwan, but grows more slowly. For transportation footprint, the transportation in Kaohsiung, it is still unsustainable. And unexpectedly, public transportation, the KRT, is the most unsustainable and inefficient while riding motorcycles is the most sustainable and taking buses is the most efficient way. “Passenger traffic” is the key factor.
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