External costs of transport in EXTERNE

Información del proyecto

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: JOS3950004

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de inicio 1 Enero 1996

Fecha de finalización 31 Mayo 1997

Financiado con arreglo a

• Specific programme for research and technological development, including demonstration in the field of non-nuclear energy, 1994-1998

Coste total

Sin datos

Aportación de la UE

Sin datos

Coordinado por

UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART
Germany

Objetivo

Objectives
Recent trends in economic thought, in particular the emphasis on sustainable development and the use of market mechanisms in environmental regulation, have given prominence to environmental externalities. Studies have shown that transport is a source of considerable environmental external costs. A comprehensive, consistent accounting framework for estimating energy related external costs of transport activities will be developed and applied. By means of the impact pathway approach-using exposure-response relationships-marginal impacts due to road, rail, air and waterway transport will be quantified and monetised.
The project focuses on impacts related to the use of energy (above all air pollution and global warming), but other impacts due to transport (e.g. accidents, noise or congestion) will be easy to integrate into the accounting framework.

Technical Approach
One of the main ideas of this project is to build up a system of building blocks. A "building block" is characterised by a transport object (e.g. 1 person, 1 tonne of goods), a transport location (e.g. motorway Stuttgart-Munich) and a transport technology (e.g. car, 3way catalyst, emission standard EURO 2, engine displacement 1.4-2 l). Transport tasks (e.g. a journey from Stuttgart to Paris) can be assessed by combining different building blocks.
According to the impact pathway methodology, reference technologies have been defined which can be used to perform the transport tasks. The priority impacts, caused by the technologies under analysis have been identified. Required models (for dispersion, exposure-response relationships and monetary valuation) have been compiled and will be applied for implementing the impact pathways. Case studies for the UK, France, The Netherlands, Greece, Italy and Germany are carried out, taking into account urban, regional and trans-European transport tasks. Thus, a set of values for different building blocks will be provided. As studies in the transport sector have shown as well as the previous ExternE project, some of the impacts cannot be quantified with the currently available knowledge. If the quantification of a physical impact is impossible, other methods of assessment, such as sustainability or pressure indices are reviewed and applied.

Expected Achievements and Exploitation
An accounting framework for assessing the environmental externalities of the transport sector will be developed. As this framework is based on a system of building blocks it will be possible to provide data on different levels of aggregation. The results, marginal costs for selected transport tasks and technologies of road, rail, air and waterway transport, can be used for including environmental damage into models like energy-, transport-, E3-models. The results will allow to compare energy related impacts of current and future transport technologies. Completion of the accounting framework and aggregation will be the objective of a further project. The complete accounting framework will aid policy and decision makers in the E3-area to make optimal choices towards internalisation of transport externalities. Results can be integrated into activities of "green accounting" at the national and European level.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

• ingeniería y tecnología › ingeniería ambiental › ingeniería de la contaminación atmosférica
• ciencias naturales › ciencias de la tierra y ciencias ambientales conexas › ciencias ambientales › contaminación
• ciencias naturales › ciencias químicas › catálisis

Programa(s)

• FP4-NNE-JOULE C - Specific programme for research and technological development, including demonstration in the field of non-nuclear energy, 1994-1998

Tema(s)

• 0103 - Modelling

Convocatoria de propuestas

Datos no disponibles

Régimen de financiación

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinador

UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: Hessbruehlstrasse, 49 a ; 70565 STUTTGART ; Alemania
• Coste total: Sin datos

Participantes (7)

AEA TECHNOLOGY PLC

Reino Unido

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: 329,Harwell 329 ; OX11 0QJ DIDCOT,HARWELL,CHILTON
• Coste total: Sin datos

ASSOCIATION POUR LA RECHERCHE ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES METHODES ET PROCESSUS INDUSTRIELS

Francia

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: Rue Claude Daunesse, Les Lucioles ; 06904 SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS
• Coste total: Sin datos

INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE LTD

Reino Unido

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: ROXBURGH PLACE 8 ; EH8 9SU EDINBURGH
• Coste total: Sin datos

Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques

Francia

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: Parc Technologique Alata ; 60550 Verneuil-en-Halatte
• Coste total: Sin datos

NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS

Grecia

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: 9,Heroon Polytechniou 9 Zographou Campus ; 15780 ATHENS
• Coste total: Sin datos

Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Italia

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: Via Roberto Sarfatti 25 ; 20136 Milano
• Coste total: Sin datos

VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM - VERENIGING VOOR CHRISTELIJK WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERWIJS

Países Bajos

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: De Boelelaan 1115 ; 1081 HV AMSTERDAM
• Coste total: Sin datos