Comparison of road freight transport trends in Europe. Coupling and decoupling factors from an Input–Output structural decomposition analysis

Alises, Ana; Vassallo, José Manuel

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2015.09.013

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“…When all these trends are combined with the downward-trend GHG emissions factors plot in Figure 2, we obtain Baseline-Scenario 1, which shows permanent positive rates year by year, indicating higher levels of emissions than in 2015. These results suggest low levels of decoupling between freight traffic and GDP [13], and thus that the efficiency gains predicted in Figure 2 would be overwhelmed by the expected positive change in the economy. The blue line corresponds to the MAPAMA's official predictions for this period.…”

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confidence: 92%

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Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Intra-National Freight Transport: Measurement and Scenarios for Greater Sustainability in Spain

2018

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Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions is a topic of major concern worldwide. Following previous articles which provide a methodology for estimating GHG emissions associated with international trade by transport mode at the world level, in this paper, we estimate an equivalent database of GHG emissions for inter-regional trade flows within a country (Spain). To this end, we built a new database of GHG emissions for origin-destination flows between Spanish provinces during 1995-2015. For each year, we combine industry-specific flows by four transport modes (road, train, ship and aircraft) with the corresponding GHG emissions factor for each mode in tons*km, drawn from the specialized literature. With this dataset of GHG emissions, we generate and analyze the temporal, sectoral and spatial pattern of Spanish inter-regional GHG flows. We then forecast emissions for 2016-2030 and consider how transport mode shifts might produce a more sustainable freight system within the country through the substitution of environmentally friendly alternatives (railway) for specific origin-destination-product flows in high-polluting modes (road).

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Section: Scenarios For Reducing Freight Emissions Through Modal Shiftmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…These results suggest low levels of decoupling between freight traffic and GDP [13], and thus that the efficiency gains predicted in Figure 2 would be overwhelmed by the expected positive change in the economy. The blue line corresponds to the MAPAMA's official predictions for this period.…”

Section: Scenarios For Reducing Freight Emissions Through Modal Shiftmentioning

confidence: 92%

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Intra-National Freight Transport: Measurement and Scenarios for Greater Sustainability in Spain

2018

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“…Decoupling refers to two variables change at different speed, the Organization for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OEDC) defined decoupling as breaking the link between “environmental bads” and “economic goods.” Tapio modified the decoupling evaluation model and divided them into eight categories according to the degree of decoupling. Armed with this framework, many scholars have studied the environment‐economy decoupling status at the national level . As for decoupling in china, most studies have been focused on regional, provincial, and sector levels.…”

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“…Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the reliability of the results from a longer time series and multilevel of research objective. On the other hand, most of the comprehensive analysis containing both environment‐economic nexus and influence factors are usually based on decoupling and IDA or SDA . While result from these two methods is both based on data from two periods (which is closer to static analysis), thus it fails to well reflect the evolution of factors influencing and other dynamic characteristics.…”

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“…Armed with this framework, many scholars have studied the environment-economy decoupling status at the national level. [38][39][40][41] As for decoupling in china, most studies have been focused on regional, provincial, and sector levels. At regional level, Zhang and Da 42 analyzed the decoupling relationship between carbon emissions and economic growth in China from 1996 to 2010, most years during their study period saw the relative decoupling effect between carbon emissions and economic growth.…”

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China's provincial energy‐related carbon emissions‐economy nexus: A two‐stage framework based on decoupling analysis and panel vector autoregression

Pan

Liu

Tsai

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Energy Science & Engineering

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China is transforming the growth model and speeding up industrial structural improvement and upgrading now and in the coming years, which means the slowdown of economic growth and more serious environmental costs in economic and social development would be the “New Normal.” As the world's largest energy consumer and carbon‐emitting country, China's emissions reduction commitments are crucial to global greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, so there is a profusion of research focused on China's economy‐environment nexus. Among which, the dynamic relationship of carbon emission and economic growth and its evolution combined the national, regional, provincial data have not been discussed thoroughly. This paper analyses the elasticity of economic performance of carbon emissions based on 30 Chinese provincial data from 2000 to 2016; furthermore, a panel vector autoregressive model is constructed to discuss the interactions of variables within environmental economic system. It is concluded that China is experiencing a turning point from weak decoupling to strong decoupling in recent years, and its economic performance of carbon emissions has been gradually improved with larger disparities among provinces though. Regression result confirms the role of the energy mix on carbon emissions, and it also indicates that the impact of most factors influencing that have been discussed in previous studies may not be direct, prominent, and for long term.

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Logistics agglomeration and logistics productivity in the USA

Sun

Zhao

2018

Ann Reg Sci

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Comparison of road freight transport trends in Europe. Coupling and decoupling factors from an Input–Output structural decomposition analysis

Cited by 41 publications

References 14 publications

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Intra-National Freight Transport: Measurement and Scenarios for Greater Sustainability in Spain

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Intra-National Freight Transport: Measurement and Scenarios for Greater Sustainability in Spain

China's provincial energy‐related carbon emissions‐economy nexus: A two‐stage framework based on decoupling analysis and panel vector autoregression

Logistics agglomeration and logistics productivity in the USA

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