Working Papers, Swedish National Road & Transport Research Institute (VTI)
No 2008:12:
Policies towards a more efficient car fleet
Svante Mandell ()
Abstract: Transportation within the EU, as in most of the
industrialized world, shows an increasing trend in CO2 emissions. This
calls for measures both to decrease the amount of transportation and/or to
increase the efficiency in the vehicle fleet. The present paper addresses
the latter by providing a simple and transparent analytical model that
illustrates how different policy measures address different parts of an
interlinked system, which determines the composition of the future car
fleet. Apart from being simple, and thereby providing an intuitive
framework, the model highlights the difference between initial responses to
policies and the outcome in equilibrium both in the short and the long
run.
Keywords: Vehicle; fuel-efficiency; policy; CO2; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: Q48; Q54; R48; (follow links to similar papers)
23 pages, December 18, 2008
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