Freight futures: The potential impact of road freight on climate policy

Carrara, S; Longden, T

Freight futures: The potential impact of road freight on climate policy

Carrara, S Longden, T

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Citation:: Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2017, 55 pp. 359 - 372
Issue Date:: 2017-08-01

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dc.contributor.author	Carrara, S	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Longden, T https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7593-659X	en_US
dc.date.issued	2017-08-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2017, 55 pp. 359 - 372	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1361-9209	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/124232
dc.description.abstract	© 2016 Elsevier Ltd This paper describes changes to the modelling of the transport sector in the WITCH (World Induced Technical Change Hybrid) model to incorporate road freight and account for the intensity of freight with respect to GDP. Modelling freight demand based on the intensity of freight with respect to GDP allows for a focus on the importance of road freight with respect to the cost-effective achievement of climate policy targets. These climate policy targets are explored using different GDP pathways between 2005 and 2100, which are sourced from the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) database. Our modelling shows that the decarbonisation of the freight sector tends to occur in the second part of the century and that the sector decarbonises by a lower extent than the rest of the economy. Decarbonising road freight on a global scale remains a challenge even when notable progress in biofuels and electric vehicles has been accounted for.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.trd.2016.10.007	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Logistics & Transportation	en_US
dc.title	Freight futures: The potential impact of road freight on climate policy	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	55	en_US
utslib.for	1402 Applied Economics	en_US
utslib.for	1205 Urban and Regional Planning	en_US
utslib.for	0502 Environmental Science and Management	en_US
utslib.for	1507 Transportation and Freight Services	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CHERE - Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	55	en_US

Abstract:

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd This paper describes changes to the modelling of the transport sector in the WITCH (World Induced Technical Change Hybrid) model to incorporate road freight and account for the intensity of freight with respect to GDP. Modelling freight demand based on the intensity of freight with respect to GDP allows for a focus on the importance of road freight with respect to the cost-effective achievement of climate policy targets. These climate policy targets are explored using different GDP pathways between 2005 and 2100, which are sourced from the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) database. Our modelling shows that the decarbonisation of the freight sector tends to occur in the second part of the century and that the sector decarbonises by a lower extent than the rest of the economy. Decarbonising road freight on a global scale remains a challenge even when notable progress in biofuels and electric vehicles has been accounted for.

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