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Disrupting Mobility: Decarbonising Transport?

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The transport sector urgently needs to identify decarbonisation pathways. Global demand for mobility is growing. The same applies for emissions from transport, with much of this growth taking place in emerging economies. Numerous scenario studies attempt to determine efficient strategies to decarbonise the transport sector. In this chapter we provide a comprehensive overview of scenario studies and reveal a wide spectrum of options to decarbonisation. Differences in projected GHG emissions, primary energy use and distances travelled are analysed. A typology of scenario studies is elaborated which reveals large differences in possible pathways.

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Several informal reviewers and collaborators commented on a number of previous drafts of this paper. The authors would like to thank Axel Volkery, Cathy Marcherais, Lukas Neckermann and Veronique van Acker for their helpful comments and suggestions.

The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of Stiftung Mercator for the preparation of this chapter.

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Table 2 BAU scenarios used in Fig. 3
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Table 3 Policy scenarios used in Fig. 4
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Table 4 GHG emissions—BAU scenarios (# corresponds to number in Table 2)
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Table 5 GHG emissions—policy scenarios (# corresponds to number in Table 3)
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Lennert, F., Schönduwe, R. (2017). Disrupting Mobility: Decarbonising Transport?. In: Meyer, G., Shaheen, S. (eds) Disrupting Mobility. Lecture Notes in Mobility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51602-8_14

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