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COMPARISON OF CLIMATE CHANGE COST OF FREIGHT ROAD, RAIL AND MARITIME TRANSPORT

Among various types of external costs in the transport sector, climate change costs are easily followed and studied in a certain period, as they are expressed only through carbon cost summarizing the impact of all greenhouse gases released in traffic. Considering incomparable research data in a ten year period, expressed in different units they are harmonized in order to become comparable. In this shape, the freight road transport shows better results in this category than freight rail and maritime transport. Rail and maritime transport are marked as more sustainable transport modes having low external costs, but it needs to recall that a large capacity and absence of accidents and congestion are mainly responsible for such characteristics. The comparison points to stagnation in the implementation of possible reduction of impacts of these modes of transport on climate changes in the observed period.

external cost ; climate change cost ; CO2 ; freight transport

Financiranje: Projekt Pomorski fakultet Sveučilište u Rijeci - „Utjecaj i efekti eksternih troškova i kvalitete usluge na valorizaciju prometnog pravca“