To inform its position on the upcoming Eurovignette debate in the European Parliament and Council, T&E, the European Federation for Transport and Environment, asked CE Delft to assess the contribution of HGV in the EU-27 to emissions of CO2 and air pollutants, noise, traffic accidents and congestion. The contribution of HGV to aggregated, Europe-wide impacts is poorly documented. This is partly to a lack of statistical data, on the total number of vehicle-kilometres, among other things. One consequence of this is that the contribution of the various transport modes to several environmental themes cannot readily be compared. The goal of this project was: to provide an overview of trends in the road freight transport sector in terms of tonne-kilometres and vehicle-kilometres as well as capacity utilisation; to gather information on the environmental performance (CO2, NOx en PM10 emissions, noise, safety) of HGV as well as congestion costs in relation to the performance of the total freight transport sector and passenger transport by cars at the EU-27 level; to weigh up the costs of HGV-related environmental and other impacts against the taxes paid and the value added by the road freight sector. (Author/publisher)
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