Centre Conjoint de Recherche sur les Transports OCDE/FIT : Documents de référence
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- Documents de travail du Forum international des transports
The International Transport Forum at the OECD is an intergovernmental organisation with 52 member countries. It acts as a strategic think tank for transport policy and organizes an annual summit of ministers. Our work is underpinned by economic research, statistics collection and policy analysis, often undertaken in collaboration with many of the world's leading research figures in academia, business and government. This series of Discussion Papers is intended to disseminate the International Transport Forum’s research findings rapidly among specialists in the field concerned.
- ISSN: 20708270 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/20708270
Policy Instruments to Limit Negative Environmental Impacts from Increased International Transport
An Economic Perspective
Transport activities have adverse environmental and health impacts, of which local and
regional air pollution, climate change, and noise impacts are the most important. This paper
is a non-comprehensive overview of existing and potential policies to deal with these
negative impacts, with a focus on “international transport”. We define “international transport”
as those transport activities that are mainly derived from the globalization of economic
activity, not as cross-border transport flows in a more narrow sense. We discuss surface
transport, aviation, and maritime transport. The overview is not comprehensive: we focus on
climate change, treating other adverse impacts (including aviation noise and local and
regional pollution from shipping) more succinctly. This does not reflect a judgment on which
impacts are more or less important policy problems, but rather policy interest and the
authors’ expertise.
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