As a potential means of offsetting diesel fuel usage and reducing the environmental impact of used tyres, this study investigates the NOx emissions of a modern commercial passenger vehicle run on a blend of diesel and tyre pyrolysis oil (TPO). The test vehicle was driven on a route...

Transport is a key factor in modern economies. However, the EU transport system is currently not sustainable, and in many respects moving away from sustainability rather than towards it. The European Environment Agency highlights in particular the sector's growing CO2 emissions that threaten the...

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of the world’s largest environmental tax reform. We compare carbon and air pollutant emissions of the German transport sector and synthetic counterfactuals following the 1999 eco-tax reform, and find average reductions in external damages of...

This paper estimates the potential of fuel tax reforms to curb harmful air pollutants and carbon emissions from road transport in Europe. We provide robust estimates for the responsiveness of fuel consumption to changes in prices, which constitute a key determinant for emissions pathways in...

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, the European Council for Automotive R&D (EUCAR), and CONCAWE jointly completed this vehicle test programme to investigate the effect of oxygenates in gasoline on the fuel consumption, regulated emissions, and particle emissions of three...

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, the European Council for Automotive R&D (EUCAR), and CONCAWE jointly completed this vehicle test programme to investigate the effect of oxygenates in gasoline on the fuel consumption, regulated emissions, and particle emissions of three...

This study evaluates the impact of fuel prices on new car purchases, using exhaustive individual-level data of monthly registration of new private cars in France from 2003 to 2007. Detailed information on the car holder enables us to account for heterogeneous preferences across purchasers. We...