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EU’s road transport sector in the context of green economy

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  • Alina Zaharia

    (Faculty of Agro-Food and Environmental Economics, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania)

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The decision makers and the specialists draw attention to the energy consumption and the pollution generated by the road transport sector as the number of vehicles and the circulation of people and goods are constantly increasing. Although, the motor vehicles are performing better in terms of cleaner fuel use than in the past, the road transport sector is still energy intensive and high pollutant. This paper discusses the EU’s road transport sector from green economy’s points of view which, among others, promotes the sustainable transportation. The research focuses on exploring the pathway of road transport sector in the European Union by analyzing a series of indicators in accordance with the EU’s binding targets. The results indicate the reductions of the carbon dioxide emissions per kilometer from new passenger cars, as well as, slight decrease of the overall energy used by the EU road transport mode. Yet, some member states might not reach the limitation of the new cars’ emissions as one of the EU’s binding targets requires: to achieve less than 95g CO2/km by 2020. Further studies could be conducted in forecasting the future emission targets for testing the achievement of EU’s binding limits.

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  • Alina Zaharia, 2015. "EU’s road transport sector in the context of green economy," International Conference on Competitiveness of Agro-food and Environmental Economy Proceedings, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, vol. 4, pages 177-185.
    • Handle: RePEc:aes:icafee:v:4:y:2015:p:177-185
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