Transportation Research, Economics and Policy Series Editors David Gillen Werner Rothengatter For other titles published in this series, go to www.springer.com/series/6647 wwwwwwwwwwwww Werner Rothengatter • Yoshitsugu Hayashi Wolfgang Schade Editors Transport Moving to Climate Intelligence New Chances for Controlling Climate Impacts of Transport after the Economic Crisis Editors Werner Rothengatter Wolfgang Schade Institute for Economic Policy Research Fraunhofer Institute for Systems Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Innovation Research (ISI) Waldhornstrasse 27, 76131 Sustainability and Infrastructure Systems Karlsruhe, Germany Business Area Transportation Systems [email protected] Breslauer Strasse 48, 76139 Karlsruhe, Germany [email protected] Yoshitsugu Hayashi International Research Center for Sustainable Transport and Cities Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University Nagoya 464-8603 C1-2(651) Japan [email protected] ISSN 1572-4387 ISBN 978-1-4419-7642-0 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-7643-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-7643-7 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011924680 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. 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Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Contents Part I Climate Control: The Long-Term Challenge 1 Climate Control: The Long-Term Challenge ......................................... 3 Werner Rothengatter, Yoshitsugu Hayashi, and Wolfgang Schade Part II Economic Crisis: A Chance for Climate Friendly Innovations in the Transport Sector 2 Economic Crisis and Consequences for the Transport Sector .............. 9 Werner Rothengatter 3 Transport in the Past and Current Climate Policy Regime .................. 29 Wolfgang Schade Part III Industrialized Countries: Experimental Protoyping 4 Low-Carbon Transport in a Developed Megalopolis: The Case of London .................................................................................. 41 David Banister and Robin Hickman 5 Getting into the Right Lane for Low-Carbon Transport in the EU ..... 53 Karst Geurs, Hans Nijland, and Bas van Ruijven 6 Japanese Efforts to Solve Environmental Problems with a Focus on the Transport Sector ..................................................... 73 Motoyuki Suzuki, Yoshitsugu Hayashi, and Hirokazu Kato Part IV D eveloping and Transition Countries: Changing from Followers to Leaders 7 Urban Transport and the Environment in Developing Countries: Complexities and Simplifications ......................................... 95 Ali Huzayyin v vi Contents 8 Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Urban Road Transport in Latin America: CO Reduction as a Co-Benefit 2 of Transport Strategies ........................................................................... 111 Lee Schipper, Elizabeth Deakin, and Carolyn McAndrews 9 Spatial Planning Strategy Towards Low-Carbon City in China ........ 129 Haixiao Pan, Yang Tang, Jinyu Wu, Yuan Lu, and Yangfei Zhang 10 Transport and Energy: The Indian Perspective ................................... 147 Sanjivi Sundar and Akshima T. Ghate 11 The Role of Rail Transport for Sustainable Urban Transport ........... 161 Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Xianmin Mai, and Hirokazu Kato 12 Financing Technology Transfer ............................................................. 175 Reiner Koblo Part V Instruments for Carbon Mitigation Policy in the Transport Sector 13 Internalizing External Costs of Transport with a Focus on Climate Change .................................................................................. 187 Patrick Jochem and Werner Rothengatter 14 Downstream Emissions Trading for Transport .................................... 209 Charles Raux 15 Passenger Mobility and Climate Constraints: Planning for Adaptive Mitigation Strategies ........................................................ 227 Hector G. Lopez-Ruiz and Yves Crozet 16 Potential of Biofuels to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions of the European Transport Sector ......................................................... 243 Burkhard Schade, Tobias Wiesenthal, Stephan Hubertus Gay, and Guillaume Leduc 17 Technological Potential for CO Emission Reductions 2 of Passenger Cars .................................................................................... 271 Michael Krail and Wolfgang Schade Contents vii Part VI Policy Conclusions 18 Transport, Environment, and Institutions: Why Good Science, Engineering, and Economics Fail?.......................................... 291 Louis S. Thompson 19 Converting the Unconverted and Establishing Financial Incentives ................................................................................ 305 Werner Rothengatter, Yoshitsugu Hayashi, and Wolfgang Schade Index ................................................................................................................. 307 wwwwwwwwwwwww Contributors David Banister Transport Studies Unit, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK [email protected] Yves Crozet l’Université de Lyon et Laboratoire d’économie des Transports (LET), Président de l’Observatoire Energie Environnement des Transports (OEET), LET-ISH, 14, Avenue Berthelot, 69363 Lyon, France [email protected] Elizabeth Deakin University of California Transportation Center, 228 Wurster Hall, Berkeley, CA, USA [email protected] Stephan Hubertus Gay European Commission, Joint Research Centre – Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Economics of Climate Change, Energy and Transport Unit, Seville, Spain; Edificio Expo – c/Inca Garcilaso, 341092 Seville, Spain [email protected] Karst Geurs Department of Civil Engineering, Centre for Transport Studies, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands [email protected] Akshima T. Ghate Centre for Research on Sustainable Urban Development and Transport Systems, The Energy and Resources Institute, Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003, India [email protected] ix