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Implications of COVID-19 lockdowns on surface passenger mobility and related CO(2) emission changes in Europe
The coronavirus pandemic has severely affected our daily lives, with direct consequences on passenger transport. This in turn has strongly impacted the energy demand of the transport sector and associated CO(2) emissions. We analyse near real-time passenger mobility and related emission trends in Eu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8278838/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34305265 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117396 |
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author | Schulte-Fischedick, Marta Shan, Yuli Hubacek, Klaus |
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description | The coronavirus pandemic has severely affected our daily lives, with direct consequences on passenger transport. This in turn has strongly impacted the energy demand of the transport sector and associated CO(2) emissions. We analyse near real-time passenger mobility and related emission trends in Europe between 21 January and 21 September 2020. We compiled a dataset of country-, sector- and lockdown- specific values, representing daily activity changes in private, public, and active passenger transport. In the aggregate, surface passenger transport emissions fell by 11.2% corresponding to 40.3 MtCO(2) in Europe. This decline was predominantly due to the reduction of private passenger transport in five European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK). During the first lockdown in April 2020, CO(2) emissions from surface passenger transport declined by 50% in Europe, resulting in a 7.1% reduction in total CO(2) emissions. After April 2020, private passenger travel recovered rapidly, while public passenger flows remained low. Solely prompted by the private sector, a rebound in total emissions and surface passenger transport emissions of 1.5% and 10.7%, respectively, was estimated at the end of the study period. The resulting situation of increased private and decreased public passenger transport is in contradiction to major climate goals, and without reversing these trends, emission reductions, as stated in the European Green Deal are unlikely to be achieved. Our study provides an analysis based on a detailed and timely set of data of surface passenger transport and points to options to grasp the momentum for innovative changes in passenger mobility. |
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spelling | pubmed-82788382021-07-20 Implications of COVID-19 lockdowns on surface passenger mobility and related CO(2) emission changes in Europe Schulte-Fischedick, Marta Shan, Yuli Hubacek, Klaus Appl Energy Article The coronavirus pandemic has severely affected our daily lives, with direct consequences on passenger transport. This in turn has strongly impacted the energy demand of the transport sector and associated CO(2) emissions. We analyse near real-time passenger mobility and related emission trends in Europe between 21 January and 21 September 2020. We compiled a dataset of country-, sector- and lockdown- specific values, representing daily activity changes in private, public, and active passenger transport. In the aggregate, surface passenger transport emissions fell by 11.2% corresponding to 40.3 MtCO(2) in Europe. This decline was predominantly due to the reduction of private passenger transport in five European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK). During the first lockdown in April 2020, CO(2) emissions from surface passenger transport declined by 50% in Europe, resulting in a 7.1% reduction in total CO(2) emissions. After April 2020, private passenger travel recovered rapidly, while public passenger flows remained low. Solely prompted by the private sector, a rebound in total emissions and surface passenger transport emissions of 1.5% and 10.7%, respectively, was estimated at the end of the study period. The resulting situation of increased private and decreased public passenger transport is in contradiction to major climate goals, and without reversing these trends, emission reductions, as stated in the European Green Deal are unlikely to be achieved. Our study provides an analysis based on a detailed and timely set of data of surface passenger transport and points to options to grasp the momentum for innovative changes in passenger mobility. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021-10-15 2021-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8278838/ /pubmed/34305265 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117396 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Schulte-Fischedick, Marta Shan, Yuli Hubacek, Klaus Implications of COVID-19 lockdowns on surface passenger mobility and related CO(2) emission changes in Europe |
title | Implications of COVID-19 lockdowns on surface passenger mobility and related CO(2) emission changes in Europe |
title_full | Implications of COVID-19 lockdowns on surface passenger mobility and related CO(2) emission changes in Europe |
title_fullStr | Implications of COVID-19 lockdowns on surface passenger mobility and related CO(2) emission changes in Europe |
title_full_unstemmed | Implications of COVID-19 lockdowns on surface passenger mobility and related CO(2) emission changes in Europe |
title_short | Implications of COVID-19 lockdowns on surface passenger mobility and related CO(2) emission changes in Europe |
title_sort | implications of covid-19 lockdowns on surface passenger mobility and related co(2) emission changes in europe |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8278838/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34305265 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117396 |
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