Shared mobility and lifestyles as mechanisms to reduce environmental impacts from passenger transportation
Despite the deployment of low- or zero-emission technologies, achieving emissions reductions in the passenger transportation sector remains challenging. Demand-side mechanisms can be instrumental in reducing environmental impacts of transportation and reconfiguring transportation systems in a way th...
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| author | Ana María Arbeláez Vélez Diana Ivanova Konstantin Stadler |
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| description | Despite the deployment of low- or zero-emission technologies, achieving emissions reductions in the passenger transportation sector remains challenging. Demand-side mechanisms can be instrumental in reducing environmental impacts of transportation and reconfiguring transportation systems in a way that shifts users away from private car ownership. In this article we look at the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States to quantify the environmental benefits from such shifts in passenger transportation, considering socio-technological drivers of transportation including well-being, digitalization, shared mobility, and electrification. We establish pathways for each of these countries considering their context. We frame these pathways using the avoid-shift-improve framework which shapes the scenarios that we quantify in our analysis. We use a travel demand model as an input to calculate carbon, energy, and air pollution footprints. We quantify direct emissions considering the characteristics of the private fleet and indirect using multiregional input-output analysis. The results show that target thresholds can be reached under the proposed supply and demand initiatives. For the United States, these actions are more dramatic than for the Netherlands and Sweden due to that country’s stronger car dependence. A deep social transformation is needed to make these scenarios possible and enable a shift towards public, active and shared transportation in urban areas. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a6317cfb2b4341bca1d859db6cf6e5ba2023-08-09T15:18:56ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262023-01-0118808402510.1088/1748-9326/ace465Shared mobility and lifestyles as mechanisms to reduce environmental impacts from passenger transportationAna María Arbeláez Vélez0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3711-7638Diana Ivanova1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3890-481XKonstantin Stadler2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1548-201XInternational Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University , Lund, SwedenSchool of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds , Leeds, United KingdomIndustrial Ecology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology , Trondheim, NorwayDespite the deployment of low- or zero-emission technologies, achieving emissions reductions in the passenger transportation sector remains challenging. Demand-side mechanisms can be instrumental in reducing environmental impacts of transportation and reconfiguring transportation systems in a way that shifts users away from private car ownership. In this article we look at the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States to quantify the environmental benefits from such shifts in passenger transportation, considering socio-technological drivers of transportation including well-being, digitalization, shared mobility, and electrification. We establish pathways for each of these countries considering their context. We frame these pathways using the avoid-shift-improve framework which shapes the scenarios that we quantify in our analysis. We use a travel demand model as an input to calculate carbon, energy, and air pollution footprints. We quantify direct emissions considering the characteristics of the private fleet and indirect using multiregional input-output analysis. The results show that target thresholds can be reached under the proposed supply and demand initiatives. For the United States, these actions are more dramatic than for the Netherlands and Sweden due to that country’s stronger car dependence. A deep social transformation is needed to make these scenarios possible and enable a shift towards public, active and shared transportation in urban areas.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ace465shared mobilitydigitalizationenvironmental footprintdemand-side mechanism |
| spellingShingle | Ana María Arbeláez Vélez Diana Ivanova Konstantin Stadler Shared mobility and lifestyles as mechanisms to reduce environmental impacts from passenger transportation Environmental Research Letters shared mobility digitalization environmental footprint demand-side mechanism |
| title | Shared mobility and lifestyles as mechanisms to reduce environmental impacts from passenger transportation |
| title_full | Shared mobility and lifestyles as mechanisms to reduce environmental impacts from passenger transportation |
| title_fullStr | Shared mobility and lifestyles as mechanisms to reduce environmental impacts from passenger transportation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Shared mobility and lifestyles as mechanisms to reduce environmental impacts from passenger transportation |
| title_short | Shared mobility and lifestyles as mechanisms to reduce environmental impacts from passenger transportation |
| title_sort | shared mobility and lifestyles as mechanisms to reduce environmental impacts from passenger transportation |
| topic | shared mobility digitalization environmental footprint demand-side mechanism |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ace465 |
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