Transport Moving to Climate Intelligence New Chances for Controlling

Transportation contributes to roughly a fifth of greenhouse gas emissions, and as a growing sector of the economy, its contribution to climate change, if remained unchanged, could even grow. This is particularly true in the developing world, where the gro

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Series Editors David Gillen Werner Rothengatter



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Werner Rothengatter  •  Yoshitsugu Hayashi Wolfgang Schade Editors

Transport Moving to Climate Intelligence New Chances for Controlling Climate Impacts of Transport after the Economic Crisis

Editors Werner Rothengatter Institute for Economic Policy Research Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Waldhornstrasse 27, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany [email protected] Yoshitsugu Hayashi International Research Center for Sustainable Transport and Cities Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University Nagoya 464-8603 C1-2(651) Japan [email protected]

Wolfgang Schade Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) Sustainability and Infrastructure Systems Business Area Transportation Systems Breslauer Strasse 48, 76139 Karlsruhe, Germany [email protected]

ISSN 1572-4387 ISBN 978-1-4419-7642-0 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-7643-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-7643-7 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011924680 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Contents

Part I  Climate Control: The Long-Term Challenge 1 Climate Control: The Long-Term Challenge.......................................... Werner Rothengatter, Yoshitsugu Hayashi, and Wolfgang Schade

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Part II Economic Crisis: A Chance for Climate Friendly Innovations in the Transport Sector 2 Economic Crisis and Consequences for the Transport Sector............... Werner Rothengatter

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3 Transport in the Past and Current Climate Policy Regime................... Wolfgang Schade

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Part III  Industrialized Countries: Experimental Protoyping 4 Low-Carbon Transport in a Developed Megalopolis: The Case of London................................................................................... David Banister and Robin Hickman 5 Getting into the Right Lane for Low-Carbon Transport in the EU...... Karst Geurs, Hans Nijland, and Bas van Ruijven 6 Japanese Efforts to Solve Environmental Problems with a Focus on the Transport Sector...................................................... Motoyuki Suzuki, Yoshitsugu Hayashi, and Hirokazu Kato

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