The Incorporation of the Environmental Dimension in Freight Transport Policy - a Comparison of 6 countries and the EU

Objective

The study examines the scope for and the barriers to sustainability in the freight transport sector.

The study seeks to address the following issues:

i) to establish how environmental considerations may be incorporated into the working of the freight transport sector in a practical sense;

ii) to identify the options and instruments for incorporation through a comparative international analysis;

iii) to compare the operation of institutional, procedural, taxation, infrastructure, liberalisation and like policy issues in the working of environmental policies.

Through case studies based upon Italian, Swiss, German, Dutch, Danish, British and EU practice, the project aims to provide:

i) state of the art national reports. The approach to and the nature of the incorporation of environmental effects is compared in policy fields such as taxation, infrastructure policies and railway policies. Transport related environmental targets and their implementation are analyzed and internal procedures and organisational links between the Environment and the Transport ministries are described and evaluated in an internationally comparative framework;

ii) hypotheses about the variables most likely to explain the extent of the incorporation of environmental effects are tested in relation to their impact on transport policies;

iii) for a number of examples which illustrate the effect of taxation and infrastructure policies, the decision-making process is reconstructed to illustrate the dynamics of incorporation.

The aim is to characterise the strategic requirements for a policy which would improve the incorporation of environmental effects in freight transport planning, at both national and EU levels.

Fields of science

• social sciences › social geography › transport › freight transport
• social sciences › social geography › transport › transport planning
• social sciences › sociology › governance › taxation

Programme(s)

• FP3-ENV 1C - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of the environment, 1990-1994

Topic(s)

• 0307 - The integration of environmental concerns into transport policy

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

EURES - INSTITUT FUER REGIONALE STUDIEN IN EUROPA, SCHLEICHER - TAPPESER KG

Address

Basler Strasse 19
79100 Freiburg (In Breisgau)
Germany

Participants (4)

INSTITUTE FOR EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

United Kingdom

Address

Horseferry Road 52
SW1P 2AG London

Infras AG

Switzerland

Address

18,rieterstraße
8002 Zürich

Stichting Centrum voor Energie- Besparing en Schone Technologie

Netherlands

Address

180,oude Delft
2611 HH Delft

Studio Ricerche Sociali

Italy

Address

Via Benedetto Dei 5a
50127 Firenze