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This report estimates the CO2 emissions of freight transport on a hypothetical high-speed rail (HSR) line along the northern route, from Lyon to Warsaw, of a 'European Silk Road' (ESR). Using a methodology consisting of predictions regarding the freight-carrying capacity of the future HSR, and...
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of a 'European Silk Road' encompassing a high-speed railway (HSR) network for Europe. To compliment the economic …
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as Pigouvian pricing measures or infrastructure subsidies. This paper focuses on one important commodity group - grain … shortages in infrastructure capacity than to a lack of competition among TOC's. This suggests that other "models" of railway …
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legal pathways for changing its transportation fuel sources. The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) authors … characterize the transformation required of the transportation system as part of the third pillar of fundamental changes required …
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enough to meet the challenges Europe faces. There has been much public debate about financing, but little about the sort of … focusing on public health, transport infrastructure and energy/decarbonisation. > It consists of two pillars. In a national … that the EU could launch in the fields of public health, transport infrastructure and energy/decarbonisation. > We call for …
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, which is associated with multilateral infrastructure connectivity initiatives, like the "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI) of … the People's Republic of China and Japan's "Partnership for Quality Infrastructure" (PQI). After introducing key issues … and PQI against this background in more detail. While infrastructure connectivity initiatives promise to combine national …
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The energy transition is a priority for the European Union, both in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing its dependence on imported fossil fuels. The European Union is at the forefront of the fight against climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions. This article...
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Far from protecting the environment, most rail transit lines use more energy per passenger mile, and many generate more greenhouse gases, than the average passenger automobile. Rail transit provides no guarantee that a city will save energy or meet greenhouse gas targets. While most rail transit...
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Costa Rica's transport infrastructure sector has long suffered from insufficient and ineffective investment and …. Internal transportation overly relies on private road vehicles as the public transport system, especially railways, is …, poor strategic planning, which results in haphazard infrastructure development and poor intermodal connections, aversion to …
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The European Union introduced the concept of Trans-European transport networks in 1996 and developed it from a set of projects into a comprehensive network plan in 2013. The high-priority components of this plan (for 2050) are a core network and nine core network corridors (CNCs), which the...
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