Research on the Relationship between CO 2 Emissions, Road Transport, Economic Growth and Energy Consumption on the Example of the Visegrad Group Countries

Błażej Suproń () and Irena Łącka
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Irena Łącka: Department of Economics and Accounting, Faculty of Economics, West Pomeranian University of Technology, 70-310 Szczecin, Poland

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 3, 1-21

Abstract: This study examines the cointegration and short- and long-run causal relationships between economic growth and CO 2 emissions, fuel consumption and the amount of freight transported by road transport in the Visegrad Group countries between 1990 and 2019. The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bound testing methodology was used to develop the results for each tested dependent variable. The results confirmed a long-run cointegration between economic growth and fuel consumption by road transport in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In addition, a long-run relationship between economic growth and freight volume and CO 2 emissions by transport was demonstrated for Slovakia. For Poland, there was only a long-run relationship between energy consumption by road freight transport and CO 2 emissions. In the short run, relationships were shown between the volume of freight transported by the road freight transport sector and CO 2 emissions for Hungary and Poland. Short-run relationships between economic growth and the volume of freight transported in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary are also interesting observations. The obtained results expand the information resources needed to make decisions on the direction of change in road transport. Additionally, the results can be used to prepare a proper environmental policy for road freight transport within the framework of the European Green Deal.

Keywords: road transport; energy consumption in transport; economic growth; CO 2 emissions; Central Europe; ARDL bound test (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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