The socio-demographic dimensions of the private transportation emissions

Titolo Rivista ECONOMICS AND POLICY OF ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Autori/Curatori Giorgio Besagni, Marco Borgarello
Anno di pubblicazione 2020 Fascicolo 2020/1
Lingua Inglese Numero pagine 12 P. 13-24 Dimensione file 221 KB
DOI 10.3280/EFE2020-001002
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It is known that the transportation sector accounts for a considerable share of the emissions and the primary energy consumption of the countries as a whole, thus determining an increas-ing attention towards the decarbonisation pathways of the transportation sectors. The energy consumption at the country-scale can be interpreted as the integral of the socio-demographic layer and the behavior spectrum. Thus, ad-hoc policy schemes need to rely on multi-scale ap-proaches, describing the household-scale and, subsequently, scaling-up towards the country-scale. In this long-term aim and perspective, the present communication contributes to the ex-isting discussion regarding relationships between the household/socio-demographic character-istics and the transportation patterns. In particular, focusing on the Italian case study, this communication explores the relationships between the household/socio-demographic variables and the carbon dioxide emissions related to the private transportation sector. To this end, this paper build on micro-data obtained by the Italian Institute of statistics and it applies a four-step statistical method to select suitable variables, explore the significant determinants and perform an household segmentation. It is found that the geographic area (in terms of the macro-scale as well as the micro-scale geographic locations) as well as income-related variables are likely to be factors influencing the carbon dioxide emissions related to the private transportation sector.

Keywords:Carbon dioxide emissions, private transportation sector, residential sector, socio-demographics.

Jel codes:R4, R41

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Giorgio Besagni, Marco Borgarello, The socio-demographic dimensions of the private transportation emissions in "ECONOMICS AND POLICY OF ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT" 1/2020, pp 13-24, DOI: 10.3280/EFE2020-001002