Assessment of energy efficiency and sustainability scenarios in the transport system

European Transport Research Review - Tập 4 - Trang 47-56 - 2011
Elena López1, Andrés Monzón1, Paul C. Pfaffenbichler2
1TRANSyT-UPM, Centro de Investigación del Transporte, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, España
2Technische Universität Wien, Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Verkehrstechnik, Wien, Austria

Tóm tắt

Energy Policy is one of the main drivers of Transport Policy. A number of strategies to reduce current energy consumption trends in the transport sector have been designed over the last decades. They include fuel taxes, more efficient technologies and changing travel behavior through demand regulation. But energy market has a high degree of uncertainty and the effectiveness of those policy options should be assessed. A scenario based assessment methodology has been developed in the frame of the EU project STEPS. It provides an integrated view of Energy efficiency, environment, social and competitiveness impacts of the different strategies. It has been applied at European level and to five specific Regions. The results are quite site specific dependent. However they show that regulation measures appear to be more effective than new technology investments. Higher energy prices could produce on their turn a deterioration of competitiveness and a threat for social goals.

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