Car fleet renewal schemes: environmental and safety impacts. France, Germany and the United States
report
TNO carried out an in-depth look at the impacts of car scrappage schemes for the International Transport Forum of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and the FIA Foundation. The study comes to some interesting conclusions:
Car fleet renewal schemes can reduce CO2 emissions and air pollution and can contribute to making roads safer.
But the gains are insufficient to make up for the value of the scrapped cars - in some cases the net losses were large.
Claims of reduced environmental impacts and improved safety should not serve as the main argument for scrapping programmes.
Schemes can be better designed to maximise their environmental and safety impacts, and this study shows how to do so.
Car fleet renewal schemes can reduce CO2 emissions and air pollution and can contribute to making roads safer.
But the gains are insufficient to make up for the value of the scrapped cars - in some cases the net losses were large.
Claims of reduced environmental impacts and improved safety should not serve as the main argument for scrapping programmes.
Schemes can be better designed to maximise their environmental and safety impacts, and this study shows how to do so.
TNO Identifier
465880
Publisher
OECD/ITF
Collation
74 p.