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Technology Opportunities and Strategies towards Climate-friendly Transport

Project

TOSCA - Technology Opportunities and Strategies towards Climate-friendly Transport


Funding origin:
European
European Union
STRIA Roadmaps:
Other ()
Transport mode:
Multimodal
Multimodal
Transport sectors:
Passenger transport
Passenger transport
Freight transport
Freight transport
Project website:
Duration:
Start date: 01/08/2009,
End date: 01/03/2011

Status: Finished
Funding details:
Total cost:
€743 196
EU Contribution:
€743 196

Overview

Background & policy context:

The EU has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20% based on the 1990 level by 2020 and further reductions are expected beyond that timeframe. However, realising this and subsequent targets may become increasingly challenging, given the past growth and future projections of transportation greenhouse gas emissions.

Objectives:

TOSCA's objective is to provide a better strategic perspective on the potential contributions to reductions in transportation greenhouse gas emissions from new transportation technologies and fuels. Secondly TOSCA, to better understand the policy interventions that are necessary to push (potentially expensive) technologies and fuels into the market, has a further objective to assess the penetration of these options under different future scenario and policy conditions. These scenario outputs are then evaluated with regard to their technical feasibility, economic affordability, and overall likelihood of realisation.

Methodology:

TOSCA consists of eight work packages, drawing on expertise from seven organisations across Europe. The first three work packages, primarily literature-based, assess state-of-the-art technologies for road vehicles, aircraft and railways along with their associated costs and potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. These studies are accompanied by a lifecycle analysis of the energy use, costs, emissions and resource potential of current and future transportation fuels in work package 4, and an assessment of the current capacity of the European transport infrastructure in work package 5. Once these studies are completed, their results are used as input into work packages 6 and 7, which evaluate the uptake of different technologies, potential for reduction in emissions, and likelihood of realisation under a number of different future scenarios with and without policy input. Finally, dissemination is handled by Work package 8.

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