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Title:

Sustainable Road Transport in the European Union: Changes in Undesirable Impacts

Accession Number:

01337443

Record Type:

Component

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780309167628

Abstract:

Road transport is vital to economic development, trade, and social integration. However, such transport is also responsible for the majority of negative impacts on the environment and society. To achieve sustainable development, a country increasingly needs to assess its undesirable costs to determine its road transport policy. In this study, total energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and the number of fatalities in the European road transport system were selected to represent the level of sustainable development in each member–state of the European Union. With data from 1995 to 2007, the extent to which the 27 European Union countries improved their productivity on sustainable road transport was evaluated on the basis of data envelopment analysis and the Malmquist productivity index. The Malmquist productivity index measures productivity change over time and can be further broken down into two components: change in efficiency and technical change. The results showed considerable progress toward sustainable road transport in Europe during this period. The breakdown into the two components further revealed that the bulk of the improvement was attained through the adoption of productivity-enhancing new technologies throughout the road transport sector rather than through the lessening of the difference between relatively inefficient countries and efficient ones. In addition, the growth in both aspects slowed in 2007; this aspect implied that the momentum of further improvement was in danger of being lost and that new impetus was needed.

Monograph Accession #:

01362315

Report/Paper Numbers:

11-3285

Language:

English

Authors:

Shen, Yongjun
Ruan, Da
Hermans, Elke
Brijs, Tom
Wets, Geert
Vanhoof, Koen

Pagination:

pp 37-44

Publication Date:

2011

Serial:

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Issue Number: 2242
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

9780309167628

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Figures (4) ; References (20) ; Tables (3)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Data envelopment analysis

Geographic Terms:

European Union countries

Subject Areas:

Energy; Environment; Highways; Policy; Society; I15: Environment; I70: Traffic and Transport

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 17 2011 6:27PM

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