Policies towards a more efficient car fleet

Svante Mandell

No 2008:12, Working Papers from Swedish National Road & Transport Research Institute (VTI)

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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q48 Q54 R48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2008-12-18
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Forthcoming in Energy Policy.

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