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Title: CARBON-DIOXIDE EMISSIONS FROM TRAVEL AND FREIGHT IN IEA COUNTRIES: THE RECENT PAST AND THE LONG-TERM FUTURE
Accession Number: 00794741
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: This paper summarizes recent work at the International Energy Agency (IEA) to quantify the underlying trends in emissions, as part of a study of the Transport/CO2 strategies of six IEA countries (Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the U.S.). Where relevant, this analysis refers to other IEA countries as well. Preliminary considerations were presented in "Transport, Energy, and Climate Change" (IEA, 1997). A new framework is presented for decomposing emissions into activity, modal share, energy intensity, and carbon content of fuels. The savings in energy and CO2 made before 1990 and trends since 1990 are compared to assess energy or CO2 policies. Passenger and freight transports are differentiated in the analysis. For freight, key parameters are not so much the efficiency of trucks as the mix of trucks by size and capacity, the way their capacity is utilized, and actual traffic conditions. Schematic forms are then reintroduced to suggest where to look for energy and CO2 savings. This schematic will then serve for the case studies now in progress. It is reported somewhat pessimistically that, while some countries appear to be attacking all components of CO2 emissions, none have any clear and large dramatic savings in sight. However, new automobile technologies, spurred perhaps by voluntary agreements in Brussels, Tokyo, and Washington, could provide large, longer-term restraint as these new technologies penetrate the fleet.
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Monograph Accession #: 00794736
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Schipper, LMARIE-LILLIU, CPagination: p. 83-118
Publication Date: 1999-8
Serial: Conference:
Conference on Policies for Fostering Sustainable Transportation Technologies
Location:
Pacific Grove, California Media Type: Digital/other
Features: Figures
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TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Freight Transportation; Highways; History; Motor Carriers; Policy
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Jun 20 2000 12:00AM
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