Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/162250 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 8.2017
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This paper describes changes to the modelling of the transport sector in the WITCH (World Induced Technical Change Hybrid) model to incorporate road freight and account for the intensity of freight with respect to GDP. Modelling freight demand based on the intensity of freight with respect to GDP allows for a focus on the importance of road freight with respect to the cost-effective achievement of climate policy targets. These climate policy targets are explored using different GDP pathways between 2005 and 2100, which are sourced from the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) database. Our modelling shows that the decarbonisation of the freight sector tends to occur in the second part of the century and the sector decarbonises by a lower extent than the rest of the economy. Decarbonising road freight on a global scale remains a challenge even when notable progress in biofuels and electric vehicles has been accounted for.
Subjects: 
Road Freight
Transport
Climate Mitigation
Integrated Assessment Models
JEL: 
Q54
Q58
R41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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