The impact of sectoral economic development on the energy efficiency and CO2 emissions of road freight transport

Transport Policy

Volumn 27, Issue , 2013, Pages 150-157

  Liimatainen, Heikki ^a   Pöllänen, Markus ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Decoupling; Energy efficiency; Forecasting; Road freight transport

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FORECASTING METHOD; FREIGHT TRANSPORT; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION POLICY;

FINLAND;

EID: 84875192261     PISSN: 0967070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2013.01.005     Document Type: Article

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