TY - JOUR
T1 - Energy Efficiency and Rebound Effect in European Road Freight Transport
AU - Llorca, Manuel
AU - Jamasb, Tooraj
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Energy efficiency has become a primary energy policy goal in Europe and many countries and has conditioned the policies towards energy-intensive sectors such as road freight transport. However, energy efficiency improvements can lead to changes in the demand for energy services that offset some of the achieved energy savings in the form of rebound effects. Consequently, forecasts of energy savings can be overstated. This paper analyses the energy efficiency and rebound effects for road freight transport in 15 European countries during the 1992–2012 period. We use a recent methodology to estimate an energy demand function using a stochastic frontier analysis approach and examine the influence of key features of rebound effect in the road freight transport sector. We obtain, on average, a fuel efficiency of 89% and a rebound effect of 4%. Our results indicate that the achieved energy efficiencies are retained to a large extent. We also find, among other results, that the rebound effect is higher in countries with higher fuel efficiency and better quality of logistics. Finally, a simulation analysis shows significant environmental externalities costs even in countries with lower rebound effect.
AB - Energy efficiency has become a primary energy policy goal in Europe and many countries and has conditioned the policies towards energy-intensive sectors such as road freight transport. However, energy efficiency improvements can lead to changes in the demand for energy services that offset some of the achieved energy savings in the form of rebound effects. Consequently, forecasts of energy savings can be overstated. This paper analyses the energy efficiency and rebound effects for road freight transport in 15 European countries during the 1992–2012 period. We use a recent methodology to estimate an energy demand function using a stochastic frontier analysis approach and examine the influence of key features of rebound effect in the road freight transport sector. We obtain, on average, a fuel efficiency of 89% and a rebound effect of 4%. Our results indicate that the achieved energy efficiencies are retained to a large extent. We also find, among other results, that the rebound effect is higher in countries with higher fuel efficiency and better quality of logistics. Finally, a simulation analysis shows significant environmental externalities costs even in countries with lower rebound effect.
KW - European road freight transport
KW - Stochastic frontier analysis
KW - Energy efficiency
KW - Rebound effect
KW - European road freight transport
KW - Stochastic frontier analysis
KW - Energy efficiency
KW - Rebound effect
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tra.2017.05.002
DO - 10.1016/j.tra.2017.05.002
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85019095649
VL - 101
SP - 98
EP - 110
JO - Transportation Research. Part A: Policy & Practice
JF - Transportation Research. Part A: Policy & Practice
SN - 0965-8564
IS - July
ER -