Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World

Andreas Schäfer, John B. Heywood, Henry D. Jacoby and Ian A. Waitz

June 2009
6 x 9, 384 pp., 30 illus.
$27.00/£17.95 (PAPER)
Short

ISBN-10: 0-262-51234-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51234-3 MIT Press

Data

These data and figures are freely downloadable and should be quoted as follows:

Schäfer A., J.B. Heywood, H.D. Jacoby, I.A. Waitz, 2009. Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World, MIT Press. Data retrieved from www.transportandclimate.com

See book for references underlying the data sets; more data sets to come.

Figure 1.1 Historical growth of the world light-duty vehicle fleet, 1900-2005

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Figure 1.2 Historical growth of world commerical passenger aviation, 1900-2005

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Figure 1.3 Use of petroleum products by sector in the U.S., 1900-2005

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Figure 1.4 Structural change in CO2 emissions for 11 world regions, 1971-1998

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Figure 2.1 Travel costs by mode for the United States, 1950-2005

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Figure 2.2 Average daily travel time per person

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Figure 2.3 Time allocation to major activities as a function of work time

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$Figure 2.4 Travel expenditures as a fraction of GDP over motorization levels$

Figure 2.4 Travel expenditures as a fraction of GDP over motorization levels

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Figure 2.5 PKT per capita over per capita GDP for eleven world regions between 1950 and 2005

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Figure 2.6 Three stages of the evolution of motorized mobility for eleven world regions between 1950 and 2005

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Figure 2.7 Relative importance of transport modes in the three metaregions and the world, history (1950 and 2005) and projections (2050)

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