Road
How Governments Can Bring Low-Emission Trucks to Our Roads – and Fast
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
13 December 2023
- Now or never. Given the urgency of the climate crisis, governments cannot let technological uncertainty be a barrier to action.
- Assess the likelihood. Governments need to carefully assess the likelihoods with which different technologies will deliver effective climate action. They must promote the most likely technologies, even with uncertainty.
- Bet on batteries. Battery-electric vehicles currently have the highest likelihood of successfully decarbonising road transport.
New but Used: The Electric Vehicle Transition and the Global Second-hand Car Trade
Corporate Partnership Board Report, Policy Insights,
4 December 2023
- Improve the traceability of internationally traded used cars.
- Avoid hampering exports of used electric vehicles to emerging economies.
- Ensure used cars for export meet clear roadworthiness criteria, including their emissions performance.
- Develop sustainable transport strategies in emerging economies to avoid their over-dependence on cars.
Shifting the Focus: Smaller Electric Vehicles for Sustainable Cities
Corporate Partnership Board Report, Policy Insights,
26 September 2023
- Shift the focus of policies that promote electric vehicles to end the dependency on large, under-used vehicles.
- Help make smaller electric vehicles an attractive choice for citizens.
- Ensure the transition to smaller electric vehicles goes in hand with adequate safety provisions.
- Fast-track the electrification of shared mobility services in complement with public transport.
- Ensure the availability of enough charging points to make electric mobility attractive.
Accessibility in the Seoul Metropolitan Area: Does Transport Serve All Equally?
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
1 August 2023
- Develop people-focused policies to improve accessibility.
- Measure the impacts of policies on access and equity.
- Enable conditions for people-focused transport policies.
Making Automated Vehicles Work for Better Transport Services: Regulating for Impact
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
25 June 2023
- Recognise new legal actors and responsibilities as part of the introduction of automated transport services.
- Extend the Safe System approach to automated vehicles.
- Invest in supporting infrastructure for AV-based transport services.
- Plan a long-term pathway for the transition towards AV-based transport services.
- Co-ordinate the roles of each level of government in regulating AV-based transport services.
- Share data to ensure integrated transport services but protect passenger data against misuse.
Preparing Infrastructure for Automated Vehicles
Research Report, Policy Insights,
3 May 2023
- Policy makers need new skills and partners to optimise the function and benefits of automated vehicles on their roads
- Automated vehicles will use existing roads in the near term, and are supported by good maintenance to a defined standard
- Developing “invisible infrastructures” offers greater opportunities for near-term benefits than upgrades to physical infrastructure
- A blueprint for co-operation can help traffic managers maximise the benefit of introducing automated vehicles as part of a wider transport network
- Standardised testing procedures across jurisdictions can accelerate the spread of automated vehicles
- Traffic laws and behavioural norms must be ready for automated vehicles
- There needs to be clear and coherent responsibility for ensuring automated vehicles work within a Safe System
- Developers and policy makers should co-operate on a research programme focused on key issues related to automated vehicles
Regulating App-based Mobility Services in ASEAN
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
23 April 2023
- Welcome app-based mobility but adjust regulation as necessary.
- Treat incumbents and entrants equally.
- Revise outdated and fragmented regulatory frameworks.
- Focus regulation on addressing clearly-identified market failures.
- Take the broader urban policy environment into account when designing regulations.
- Improve public authority digital skills and access to data.
- Streamline the regulatory framework for app-based mobility services.
- Monitor and enforce regulations.
- Build regulatory capacity within ASEAN member states.
The Freight Space Race: Curbing the Impact of Freight Deliveries in Cities
Corporate Partnership Board Report, Policy Insights,
5 December 2022
- Manage curb space with a focus on the needs of both passengers and goods transport.
- Apply access restrictions for delivery vehicles in urban areas while considering business practices.
- Use more logistics data to better monitor and manage freight flows.
Decarbonising Europe’s Trucks: How to Minimise Cost Uncertainty
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
4 September 2022
- Ensure that policies to promote direct electrification of trucks remain technology-neutral.
- Launch targeted studies and pilot projects to assess the merits of electric road systems for road freight decarbonisation.
- Further investigate decarbonisation technologies for particularly challenging road freight applications.
- Introduce policies that help zero-emission vehicles become cost-competitive sooner.
- Accelerate the deployment of zero-emission vehicle infrastructure.
- Strengthen regulations that make trucks more energy-efficient.
Implementing the ASEAN Fuel Economy Roadmap
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
27 March 2022
- Strengthen alignment on fuel economy measurement as a key prerequisite for further action.
- Ensure availability of testing capacity for fuel economy.
- Build data processing and storage capacity for benchmarking, monitoring and decision making.
- Adopt and align policy tools to strengthen ASEAN fuel economy ambition.
- Align fuel taxation policies across ASEAN.
- Include low- and zero-emission vehicles in the ASEAN fuel economy roadmap.
- Target all motorised vehicles with policies that reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.