F6 (NRP 41) - Ecological effects of Eurometro
Overview
Background & policy context:
The NRP 41 was launched by the Federal Council at the end of 1995 to improve the scientific basis on which Switzerland's traffic problems might be solved, taking into account the growing interconnection with Europe, ecological limits, and economic and social needs. The NRP 41 aimed to become a think-tank for sustainable transport policy. Each one of the 54 projects belongs to one of the following six modules:
- A Mobility: Socio-institutional Aspects
- B Mobility: Socio-economical Aspects
- C Environment: Tools and Models for Impact Assessments
- D Political and Economic Strategies and Prerequisites
- E Traffic Management: Potentials and Impacts
- F Technologies: Potentials and Impacts
- M Materials
- S Synthesis Projects
Objectives:
This research report concerns an integrated, sustainable transport policy that has been marginally discussed so far – High Speed Transport (HST). It seeks to provide a basis for decisions on whether new and innovative technologies could provide a sensible technical alternative to long distance traffic. Thus taking into account the rapidly growing air traffic, and the energetic and ecologic perspectives. Furthermore, the research report wants to indentify the most important factors influencing the energy consumption and the resources, and the relevant emissions into the environment.
Methodology:
The idea of making an updated ecological assessment was abandoned with the NFP41 programme management's agreement, due to limited time and human resources. In addition, as far as the currently available data was concerned, no significant consolidation of results compared to the ecological assessments presented by MINGOT ET AL. [1997] and LEUENBERGER ET AL. [1998] could be expected. Instead, updated results based on the latest basic data of the energy consumption and the greenhouse effect for the previously researched tracks Rome-Frankfurt were recalculated. The calculations were performed using two demand variants at the upper and lower end of the demand interval to be expected from previous and new examinations.
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