Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine
Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance
Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
Luxembourg Centre for European Law
Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental Systems
Environmental Policy in the Transport Sector – A Quantitative Approach
Abstract
This lecture focuses on simulating and measuring the effects of environmental policies in the transport sector through abstract models and empirical analysis. It addresses pressing policy questions such as whether the transport sector is contributing fairly to climate efforts, the need for carbon taxes on gasoline in regions like the EU and USA, the environmental justification for banning cars in city centers, the feasibility of carbon-free freight transport, comparisons between rail and air travel emissions, and the environmental impact of local versus overseas products. The lecture distinguishes between local pollution issues, particularly air pollution from cars, and global challenges like climate change, highlighting the need for more transport economists to engage with these critical questions.
About the speaker
Stef Proost is emeritus full professor at the KULeuven. He has been teaching environmental economics, energy economics and transport economics to economists and engineers and supervised 25 Phd students .He is co-founder of the Energy Institute of the KULeuven and co-founder of the spin-off Transport Mobility Leuven (TML).
Language
English.
This is a free lecture. Registration is mandatory.