Implications of COVID-19 lockdowns on surface passenger mobility and related CO₂ emission changes in Europe.

ABSTRACT: The coronavirus pandemic has severely affected our daily lives, with direct consequences on passenger transport. This in turn has strongly impacted the energy demand of the transport sector and associated CO₂ emissions. We analyse near real-time passenger mobility and related emission trends in Europe between 21 January and 21 September 2020. We compiled a dataset of country-, sector- and lockdown- specific values, representing daily activity changes in private, public, and active passenger transport. In the aggregate, surface passenger transport emissions fell by 11.2% corresponding to 40.3 MtCO₂ in Europe. This decline was predominantly due to the reduction of private passenger transport in five European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK). During

SUBMITTER: Schulte-Fischedick M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8278838 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature