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Sustainability performance assessment of the transport sector in European countries

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dc.contributor.authorGruetzmacher, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorVaz, Clara B.
dc.contributor.authorFerreira, Ângela P.
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-28T08:43:40Z
dc.date.available2022-07-28T08:43:40Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe transport sector plays a fundamental role in the European Union economy and its efficiency is fundamental to strengthen the region’s environmental and economic performance. Unfortunately, the sector still remains heavily dependent on oil resources and is responsible for a large part of the air pollution. The European Union has been promoting various initiatives towards sustainable transport development by setting targets in the sector such as the ones proposed in the 2011 White Paper on transport. Under this context, this study aims at evaluating the environmental performance of the transport sector in 28 European Union countries, from 2015 to 2018, towards the policy agenda established in the strategic documents. The assessment of the transport environmental performance is made through the aggregation of seven sub-indicators into a composite indicator using a Data Envelopment Analysis technique. A variant of the Benefit of the Doubt model is used to determine the weights to aggregate the sub-indicators. The results obtained indicate that the European Union countries have been improving their transport environmental performance in the last two years of the time span under analysis, i.e., 2017 and 2018. Regarding the inefficient countries, results suggest they should improve the transport sustainability mainly by drastically reducing the greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-based propulsion, increasing the share of freight transport using rail and inland waterways and also the share of transport energy from renewable sources.pt_PT
dc.description.abstractEl sector del transporte tiene un papel fundamental en la economía de la Unión Europea y su eficiencia es fundamental para fortalecer el desempeño ambiental y económico de la región. Desafortunadamente, el sector sigue dependiendo en gran medida de los recursos petroleros y es responsable de una gran parte de la contaminación del aire. La Unión Europea ha venido impulsando varias iniciativas hacia el desarrollo del transporte sostenible estableciendo objetivos en el sector como los propuestos en el White paper on transport. Este estudio tiene como objetivo evaluar el desempeño ambiental del sector del transporte en 28 países de la Unión Europea, de 2015 a 2018, hacia la agenda política establecida en los documentos estratégicos. La evaluación se realiza mediante la agregación de siete sub-indicadores en un indicador compuesto utilizando un enfoque de Data Envelopment Analysis. Los resultados adquiridos indican que los países de la Unión Europea han estado mejorando su desempeño ambiental del transporte en los últimos dos años del período analizado, 2017 y 2018. Con respecto a los países ineficientes, los resultados sugieren que deberían mejorar la sustentabilidad del transporte principalmente reduciendo drásticamente las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero de la propulsión basada en combustibles fósiles, aumentando la participación de transporte de mercancías que utiliza ferrocarril y vías navegables interiores y también la parte de la energía de transporte procedente de fuentes renovables.pt_PT
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work has been supported by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope UIDB/05757/2020.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationGruetzmacher, Sarah Beatriz; Vaz, Clara B.; Ferreira, Ângela P. (2021). Sustainability performance assessment of the transport sector in European countries = Evaluación de desempeño de sostenibilidad del sector del transporte en países europeos. Revista Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Antioquia. ISSN 0120-6230. 104, p. 42-52pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.17533/udea.redin.20210742pt_PT
dc.identifier.eissn2422-2844
dc.identifier.issn0120-6230
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10198/25762
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherUniversidad de Antioquiapt_PT
dc.relationResearch Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectComposite indicatorpt_PT
dc.subjectSustainable developmentpt_PT
dc.subjectData envelopment analysispt_PT
dc.subjectBenefit of the doubtpt_PT
dc.titleSustainability performance assessment of the transport sector in European countriespt_PT
dc.title.alternativeEvaluación de desempeño de sostenibilidad del sector del transporte en países europeospt_PT
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