Innovations for sustainable long distance travel
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Coordinator | KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HÖGSKOLAN - Institutionen för hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik |
Funding from Vinnova | SEK 4 900 000 |
Project duration | November 2016 - June 2020 |
Status | Completed |
Purpose and goal
An aim with the project has been to explore future images of Swedes´ long-distance travel in 2060 that may be compatible with global warming being limited to below two degrees. This has formed a basis for analyzing which combinations of national and international policy instruments are suitable for directing development towards futures similar to these. An important aim has also been to disseminate policy-relevant results from the project to key actors and the interested public.
Expected results and effects
The five sustainable images of the future for the year 2060 are all associated with different types of challenges. Most of them involve air travel that is in the order of a third lower than in 2018. In our analysis of various policies, we find that a combination of international and national policies such as passenger tax and possibly an obligatory biofuel blending is required. CORSIA is a weak instrument and it is therefore important that flights within the EU remain in emissions trading. Results have been disseminated through over twenty features in the press, radio and television.
Planned approach and implementation
The project has had a reference group attached to it with representatives from authorities and the aviation and railway sector. Images of long-distance travel in 2060 were prepared by the working group with the help of the reference group. The public´s acceptance of seven policy instruments has been examined with the help of a web-based citizen panel (4,500 respondents). How the international policies CORSIA and the EU´s trading system can interact with each other as well as with national instruments are dealt with in a special report. All results are summarized in a synthesis report.