Reducing greenhouse gas emissions – Examples from the freight transport sector: Essays on economic growth, public policy instruments, and renewable energy.
Licentiatavhandling, 2021
Paper III investigate the performance of European public policy instruments promoting a modal shift of freight transports from road to rail and/or water. Performing a literature review, 93 public policies are identified, whereof ex-post evaluations are found for 20. The evaluated policies are mainly subsidies/grants at national level, or EU-policies. Variation in evaluation methods and performance indicators complicates comparisons of policy performance. However, policies promoting rail are in general more successful than those promoting waterborne transport. Common factors for underachievement include lack of applications, outreach problems, and complicated application processes. Furthermore, broad and general policy targets complicate evaluation as well as fulfilment of objectives.
Paper II analyse barriers, opportunities, and potential solutions to renewable energy diffusion, focusing on liquefied biogas for heavy trucks. Interviews with experts and stakeholders in Sweden show that main barriers include financial limits, lacking infrastructure, lacking knowledge, and unstable policy instruments. Yet, several policy instruments already target the barriers to LBG diffusion and given current taxes and subsidies, costs of using LBG trucks are only marginally higher than those for using diesel trucks in Sweden. Thus, continuously evaluating policy performance is important.
Climate change mitigation
Renewable energy
Public policy instruments
Evaluation
Modal shift
Greenhouse gas emissions
Environmental Kuznets curve
Liquefied biogas
Economic development
Freight transport
Författare
Johanna Takman
Chalmers, Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Geologi och geoteknik
The N-shaped environmental Kuznets curve: An empirical evaluation using a panel quantile regression approach
Environmental Science and Pollution Research,;Vol. 25(2018)p. 5848-5861
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift
A framework for barriers, opportunities, and potential solutions for renewable energy diffusion: Exemplified by liquefied biogas for heavy trucks
Transport Policy,;Vol. 110(2021)p. 150-160
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift
Takman, J., Gonzalex-Aregall, M. 2021. A review of policy instruments to promote freight modal shift in Europe: Evidence from evaluations. VTI Working Paper 2021:6.
Drivkrafter
Hållbar utveckling
Styrkeområden
Transport
Energi
Ämneskategorier
Tvärvetenskapliga studier
Nationalekonomi
Studier av offentlig förvaltning
Miljövetenskap
Lic / Architecture and Civil Engineering / Chalmers University of Technology: 2021:7
Utgivare
Chalmers