MEASURES TO REDUCE THE CO2-EMISSIONS FROM THE TRANSPORT SECTOR IN THE CITY OF STOCKHOLM

The city of Stockholm has made a decision to freeze the exhausts of carbon dioxide at the 1990 level up to the year 2000 and to restrict the carbon dioxide emissions in the long run to achieve a long-term, sustainable development. An environmental impact analysis of a broad spectrum of possible actions to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions from the transportation sector within the city was carried out. With a cost effectiveness analysis it will be possible to address the question: which measures are the most cost effective from the environmental point of view, i.e. in this case, which measures yield the highest reductions of the carbon dioxide exhausts? Many measures, whose costs mainly consist of administrative surveillance costs, yield the highest cost efficiency, and well below the present target of 0.05 ECU per kg of carbon dioxide. Such highly cost effective measures are: improved traffic signals, road pricing schemes, traffic calming measures, and car pooling incentives in terms of high occupancy lanes.

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• Authors:
  • LINDQVIST, E
  • Tegner, G
• Conference:
  • Fourth International Conference on Urban Transport and Environment for the 21st Century (Edited by C Borrego and L Sucharov)
  • Location: Losbon, Portugal
  • Date: 1998-9-0 to 1998-9-0
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 349-358

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Carbon dioxide; Carpools; Cost effectiveness; Emission control systems; Environmental impact analysis; High occupancy vehicles; Pollution control; Road pricing; Sustainable development; Traffic calming; Traffic signal control systems
• Geographic Terms: Stockholm (Sweden)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00762133
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 1853125970
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 25 1999 12:00AM