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dc.contributor.author | SHEN, Yongjun | - |
dc.contributor.author | RUAN, Da | - |
dc.contributor.author | HERMANS, Elke | - |
dc.contributor.author | BRIJS, Tom | - |
dc.contributor.author | WETS, Geert | - |
dc.contributor.author | VANHOOF, Koen | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-04-27T13:28:52Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-04-27T13:28:52Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD, 2242, p. 37-44 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0361-1981 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/13602 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Road transport is vital to economic development, trade, and social integration. However, such transport is also responsible for the majority of negative impacts on the environment and society. To achieve sustainable development, a country increasingly needs to assess its undesirable costs to determine its road transport policy. In this study, total energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and the number of fatalities in the European road transport system were selected to represent the level of sustainable development in each member-state of the European Union. With data from 1995 to 2007, the extent to which the 27 European Union countries improved their productivity on sustainable road transport was evaluated on the basis of data envelopment analysis and the Malmquist productivity index. The Malmquist productivity index measures productivity change over time and can be further broken down into two components: change in efficiency and technical change. The results showed considerable progress toward sustainable road transport in Europe during this period. The breakdown into the two components further revealed that the bulk of the improvement was attained through the adoption of productivity-enhancing new technologies throughout the road transport sector rather than through the lessening of the difference between relatively inefficient countries and efficient ones. In addition, the growth in both aspects slowed in 2007; this aspect implied that the momentum of further improvement was in danger of being lost and that new impetus was needed. | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | NATL ACAD SCIENCES | - |
dc.subject.other | Engineering, Civil; Transportation; Transportation Science & Technology | - |
dc.title | Sustainable Road Transport in the European Union Changes in Undesirable Impacts | - |
dc.type | Journal Contribution | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 44 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 37 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 2242 | - |
local.format.pages | 8 | - |
local.bibliographicCitation.jcat | A1 | - |
dc.description.notes | Wets, G (reprint author),[Shen, Yongjun; Hermans, Elke; Brijs, Tom; Wets, Geert; Vanhoof, Koen] Hasselt Univ, Transportat Res Inst, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium. [Ruan, Da] Belgian Nucl Res Ctr, B-2400 Mol, Belgium. geert.wets@uhasselt.be | - |
local.publisher.place | WASHINGTON | - |
local.type.refereed | Refereed | - |
local.type.specified | Article | - |
dc.bibliographicCitation.oldjcat | A1 | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3141/2242-05 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | 000299360600005 | - |
item.fulltext | With Fulltext | - |
item.accessRights | Restricted Access | - |
item.contributor | SHEN, Yongjun | - |
item.contributor | RUAN, Da | - |
item.contributor | HERMANS, Elke | - |
item.contributor | BRIJS, Tom | - |
item.contributor | WETS, Geert | - |
item.contributor | VANHOOF, Koen | - |
item.fullcitation | SHEN, Yongjun; RUAN, Da; HERMANS, Elke; BRIJS, Tom; WETS, Geert & VANHOOF, Koen (2011) Sustainable Road Transport in the European Union Changes in Undesirable Impacts. In: TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD, 2242, p. 37-44. | - |
item.validation | ecoom 2013 | - |
crisitem.journal.issn | 0361-1981 | - |
crisitem.journal.eissn | 2169-4052 | - |
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