Combining technology development and behaviour change to meet CO2 cumulative emission budgets for road transport: Case studies for the USA and Europe

Skippon, Stephen; Veeraraghavan, S.; Ma, Hongrui; Gadd, Paul; Tait, Nigel

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2012.05.021

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“…The majority of studies on the effects of environmental policies are done exante and are mostly based on simulations (BenDor and Ford (2006), Giblin andMcNabola (2009), Greene et al (2005)) and Skippon et al (2012) Rogan et al (2011) are in line with the present work. In particular, they find a larger short term effect of about 13% reduction of CO 2 intensity, brought about primarily by the shift to diesel-powered vehicles.…”

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Environmental effects of a vehicle tax reform: Empirical evidence from Norway

Ciccone

2018

Transport Policy

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractIn 2007, the Norwegian government reformed the vehicle registration tax in order to reduce the carbon intensity of the new car fleet by incentivizing the purchase of more fuel efficient cars. This paper identifies the impact of the new tax structure on three main dimensions: (i) the average CO 2 emissions intensity of new registered vehicles, (ii) the relative change in sales between low and high polluting cars and (iii) the market share of diesel cars. A Difference in Difference approach is employed to estimate the short run effects on each outcome variable of interest. The results show that the average CO 2 intensity of new vehicles was reduced in the year of the implementation of the reform by about 7.5 g of CO 2 /km. This reduction is the result of a 12 percentage points drop in the share of highly polluting cars and of an increase of about 20 percentage points in the market share of diesel cars.

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Environmental effects of a vehicle tax reform: Empirical evidence from Norway

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“…Despite this focus and the need to meet legislated short and medium targets, there is a gap in understanding the carbon emission reduction effects of individual vehicle tax policies. The evidence we have is mostly ex-ante (Bastani et al, 2012;BenDor and Ford, 2006;Greene, 2009;Greene et al, 2005;Haan et al, 2006;Skippon et al, 2012;Spitzley et al, 2005), with some notable attempts of ex-post evaluation of fiscal policy instruments on passenger car sales and CO2 emissions (Ryan et al, 2009), car taxation policy in Ireland (Rogan et al, 2011) and the car registration fee in the Czech Republic (Zimmermannova, 2012). However, with the exception of Spitzley et al (2005) and Bastani et al (2012), none of these are on a life cycle analysis basis which not only looks at direct (or tailpipe, at source) GHG emissions but also takes into consideration indirect GHG emissions from fuel supply, vehicle production, maintenance and scrappage.…”

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“…Finally, there is also lack of exploring cumulative totals or budgets of GHG emissions over given periods as much of the focus has been on meeting annual targets (e.g. 2020, 2050) (Skippon et al, 2012). Total CO2 from passenger cars is of course not only a function of its efficiency, but also of how much a car is used.…”

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Accelerating the transformation to a low carbon passenger transport system: The role of car purchase taxes, feebates, road taxes and scrappage incentives in the UK

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Tran

2013

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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The transition to a low carbon transport world requires a host of demand and supply policies to be developed and deployed. Pricing and taxation of vehicle ownership plays a major role, as it affects purchasing behavior, overall ownership and use of vehicles. There is a lack in robust assessments of the life cycle energy and environmental effects of a number of key car pricing and taxation instruments, including graded purchase taxes, vehicle excise duties and vehicle scrappage incentives. This paper aims to fill this gap by exploring which type of vehicle taxation accelerates fuel, technology and purchasing behavioral transitions the fastest with (i) most tailpipe and life cycle greenhouse gas emissions savings, (ii) potential revenue neutrality for the Treasury and (iii) no adverse effects on car use.The UK Transport Carbon Model was developed further and used to assess long term scenarios of low carbon fiscal policies and their effects on transport demand, vehicle stock evolution, life cycle greenhouse gas emissions in the UK. The modeling results suggest that policy choice, design and timing can play crucial roles in meeting multiple policy goals. Both CO2 grading and tightening of CO2 limits over time are crucial in achieving the transition to low carbon mobility. Of the policy scenarios investigated here the more ambitious and complex car purchase tax and feebate policies are most effective in accelerating low carbon technology uptake, reducing life cycle greenhouse gas emissions and, if designed carefully, can avoid overburdening consumers with ever more taxation whilst ensuring revenue neutrality. Highly graduated road taxes (or VED) can also be successful in reducing emissions; but while they can provide handy revenue streams to governments that could be recycled in accompanying low carbon measures they are 2 of 32 likely to face opposition by the driving population and car lobby groups. Scrappage schemes are found to save little carbon and may even increase emissions on a life cycle basis.The main policy implication of this work is that in order to reduce both direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions from transport governments should focus on designing incentive schemes with strong up-front price signals that reward 'low carbon' and penalize 'high carbon'. Policy instruments should also be subject to early scrutiny of the longer term impacts on government revenue and pay attention to the need for flanking policies to boost these revenues and maintain the marginal cost of driving.

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“…Es importante destacar que las estrategias de reducción más eficaces incluyen medidas de comportamiento combinadas con el desarrollo tecnológico. Además, las mejoras en la operación en principio podrían ser implementadas mucho más rápidamente y los aumentos en el rendimiento son de alto impacto [23].…”

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Estrategias de eficiencia energética en vehículos livianos del transporte por carretera en Colombia

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El sector de transporte por carretera en Colombia es el responsable del 44 % del consumo de energéticos. Igualmente, se clasifica como el principal consumidor de los combustibles derivados del petróleo y el sector productivo con mayores pérdidas de energía. En este estudio se presentan estrategias tecnológicas y operacionales que mejoran el rendimiento de los vehículos livianos. Además, se identifican metodologías encaminadas a la medición del consumo energético y emisiones de los vehículos y se evalúa la conducción eficiente como estrategia de eficiencia energética en Colombia. Como resultado, se implementó la metodología de pruebas basada en la Regulación CFR 40 de los Estados Unidos y COPANT en un laboratorio del país, y se evaluó mediante el aseguramiento metrológico el consumo de combustible en un vehículo liviano de combustión interna. Adicionalmente, empleando conducción eficiente se identificó un aumento en el rendimiento del 15 % y 20 % en pruebas de laboratorio y ruta respectivamente.

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Combining technology development and behaviour change to meet CO2 cumulative emission budgets for road transport: Case studies for the USA and Europe

Cited by 20 publications

References 18 publications

Environmental effects of a vehicle tax reform: Empirical evidence from Norway

Environmental effects of a vehicle tax reform: Empirical evidence from Norway

Accelerating the transformation to a low carbon passenger transport system: The role of car purchase taxes, feebates, road taxes and scrappage incentives in the UK

Estrategias de eficiencia energética en vehículos livianos del transporte por carretera en Colombia

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