Transportation contributes to roughly a fifth of greenhouse gas emissions, and as a growing sector of the economy, its contribution to climate change, if remained unchanged, could even grow. This is particularly true in the developing world, where the growth rates of air and ship transport are expected to exceed those of the EU, and worldwide objectives to curb greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 by sixty to eighty percent could be placed in serious jeopardy. This book addresses the key issues of controlling transportation growth and identifying and implementing measures that would significantly reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases from transport while maintaining its vital role in generating prosperity and mobility for future generations. This book describes the challenge that transport constitutes today as well as its role in the future for climate policy. It will discuss and provide hands-on suggestions for transportation policy that will mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions from transport.
The book is organized into five parts. Part One presents an overview of transport and climate policy in the context of the recent economic crisis. Part Two examines the problems and proposed solutions for curbing emissions from transport in industrialized countries while Parts Three and Four deal with the developing world, with a particular focus on India and China. Part Five discusses tested solutions and provides policy recommendations making this book of interest to a broad audience of both policy-makers and academics concerned with the role of transport in reducing global climate change.
Transportation Research, Economics and Policy
Series Editors David Gillen Werner Rothengatter
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Transport Moving to Climate Intelligence New Chances for Controlling Climate Impacts of Transport after the Economic Crisis
Editors Werner Rothengatter Institute for Economic Policy Research Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Waldhornstrasse 27, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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Wolfgang Schade Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) Sustainability and Infrastructure Systems Business Area Transportation Systems Breslauer Strasse 48, 76139 Karlsruhe, Germany
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ISSN 1572-4387 ISBN 978-1-4419-7642-0 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-7643-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-7643-7 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011924680 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar ter