SPACON+
Project name: | SPACON+ - Spatial COnsumption/ Production Structure and Mobility- Related CO2- Emissions |
Project leader: | Birgit Bednar- Friedl |
Project team: | Olivia Koland Christoph Töglhofer Andreas Türk |
Partners: | Laurent Franckx, University of Leuven |
Sponsor: | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Global Change Programme |
Duration: | 2005 - 2007 |
Abstract:
Mobility activities currently trigger the fastest increasing segment in fossil fuel emissions. This reflects a specific spatial structure in the distribution of land use devoted to residence, work, shopping, leisure and production. While a fundamental change in spatial structure (including infrastructure) is required to change mobility consumption patterns, this needs to be a long-term process, feeding back on the whole production system and connected to substantial carbon consequences. In the present study, these interactions will be described by means of a spatial computable general equilibrium model in order to evaluate the scope by which respective technological options and, more fundamentally, spatial restructuring can reduce mobility-related fossil fuel emissions.