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Transport Bridging Divides
OECD - 2020
Transport connects people, places and cities. Investment in transport infrastructure therefore helps bridging economic and social divides. It promotes economic growth and catching up of regions by providing access to jobs for workers and markets for firms. This report summarises evidence on the...
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Transport Infrastructure in ECMT Countries : Profiles and Prospects (Monographs)
1998
homogeneous basis, the inland transport infrastructures, the investment forecasts and the main traffic flows in 30 European …
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Key Issues for Transport beyond 2000
2002
A clear dichotomy exists between an European economy centred on international trade and the environmental damage to which this focus gives rise. There is a need for a novel approach based on a shift away from the goal of ever-faster travel and ever-greater time savings, and the adoption of a...
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Transport Links between Europe and Asia
2006
Land links between Europe and Asia can offer a viable alternative to sea transport. However, the provision of efficient land links between Europe and Asia requires appropriate policy decisions on issues such as the development of adequate infrastructure and the removal of regulatory or...
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Energy Use in the New Millennium : Trends in IEA Countries
2007
Responding to a Gleneagles G8 Summit request, this book shows how changes in energy efficiency, economic structure …, income, prices and fuel mix have affected recent trends in energy use and CO2 emissions in IEA countries. The results are a … “wake-up call” for us all. Since 1990, the rate of energy efficiency improvement in IEA countries has been less than 1% per …
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Efficient Transport Taxes and Charges
2001
How do taxes and charges for transport in, for example, France compare with those in Germany? Do hauliers in one country pay more than in the other, and what impact does this have on the profitability of haulage in each country? Is the impact of an increase in tax on diesel the same in each...
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Decoupling the Environmental Impacts of Transport from Economic Growth
2006
Transport activity continues to cause large adverse impacts on the environment, human health and the economy. But is a negative impact of transport on the environment a necessary consequence of economic growth? This book illustrates that decoupling the environmental impacts of transport from...
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Transport Energy and CO2 : Moving towards Sustainability
2009
Car ownership is set to triple by 2050, trucking activity will double and air travel could increase fourfold. This book examines how to enable mobility without accelerating climate change. It finds that if we change the way we travel, adopt technologies to improve vehicle efficiency and shift to...
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