Developing low carbon policies for road transport in Poland

Developing low carbon policies for road transport in Poland

Kok, R.
Rahman, S.A.

Technology, Policy and Management

Infrastructures, Systems and Services

2010-10-11

This paper presents the results of work done for the World Bank to develop low carbon policies for road transport in Poland. Here, we outline the development of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, develop a Business As Usual (BAU) scenario based on social-economic-, infrastructure-, car market, vehicle stock-, fuel use, and technological developments in Poland, and forecast future GHG emissions to 2030. We analyse the potential effect of several policy measures including road pricing, congestion charging, fuel tax policies, eco-driving training, parking policies, and promotion of non-motorized and public transport. If the assumptions included in the BAU scenario remain valid, and there is little reason to assume they will not, Poland will not be able to meet its GHG reduction obligations to the EU as well as under other international obligations. Worse, even if strong policy measures are put in place, Poland will still have substantially higher GHG emissions than what is possible in the EU target growth of 14% by 2020 for non-EU-ETS sector such as road transport.

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Association for European Transport (AET)

ETC 2010: European Transport Conference, Glasgow, UK, 11-13 October 2010

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