TY - CHAP
T1 - Policy implications of the potential carbon dioxide (CO2) emission and energy impacts of highly automated vehicles
AU - Annema, Jan Anne
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This chapter explores the extent to which the adoption of highly automated vehicles (AVs) will lead to carbon dioxide (CO2) emission reduction in the future. Additionally, policy implications are given. Based on existing literature, this chapter shows that the adoption of AVs will result in a modest improvement of CO2 emission per kilometer traveled compared to non-autonomous vehicles in the future. Combined with the expectations that AVs will lead to a modest to, even, high growth in vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT) compared to business as usual, the net energy and CO2 emission balance for AVs seems, at its best, to be neutral, but is probably negative. The potential accelerating role of AVs in relation to the uptake of electric vehicles might have the largest positive impacts on the CO2 emissions per kilometer driven, but this accelerating role of AV technology in relation to the uptake of electric vehicles is uncertain. For the time being the most useful policy implication to curb road transport CO2 emissions seems to be to continue with policies that promote the use of alternatives for fossil fuels, such as electricity.
AB - This chapter explores the extent to which the adoption of highly automated vehicles (AVs) will lead to carbon dioxide (CO2) emission reduction in the future. Additionally, policy implications are given. Based on existing literature, this chapter shows that the adoption of AVs will result in a modest improvement of CO2 emission per kilometer traveled compared to non-autonomous vehicles in the future. Combined with the expectations that AVs will lead to a modest to, even, high growth in vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT) compared to business as usual, the net energy and CO2 emission balance for AVs seems, at its best, to be neutral, but is probably negative. The potential accelerating role of AVs in relation to the uptake of electric vehicles might have the largest positive impacts on the CO2 emissions per kilometer driven, but this accelerating role of AV technology in relation to the uptake of electric vehicles is uncertain. For the time being the most useful policy implication to curb road transport CO2 emissions seems to be to continue with policies that promote the use of alternatives for fossil fuels, such as electricity.
KW - Automated vehicles
KW - Carbon dioxide emission
KW - Environment
KW - Policy implications
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85083394408&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/bs.atpp.2020.03.001
DO - 10.1016/bs.atpp.2020.03.001
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85083394408
SN - 9780128201916
T3 - Advances in Transport Policy and Planning
SP - 149
EP - 162
BT - Policy Implications of Autonomous Vehicles
A2 - Milakis, Dimitris
A2 - Thomopoulos, Nikolas
A2 - van Wee, Bert
PB - Elsevier
ER -