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SUMMARY:What long term road transport future? Trends and policy options 
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Stef Proost\, Center for Economic Studies\, Catholic Uni
 versity of Leuven \nThis article examines long-term trends and broad polic
 y options and challenges related to the road transport sector and its cong
 estion and environmental impacts. A brief review of long-term projections 
 of demand for road transport suggests that problems related to road networ
 k congestion and greenhouse gas emissions are likely to become more pressi
 ng in the future than they are now. Next we review from a macroscopic pers
 pective three policy measures aimed at addressing these problems: stimulat
 ing shifts in transport modes to decrease congestion and greenhouse gas em
 issions boosting low carbon technology adoption to reduce greenhouse gas e
 missions from cars and regulating land use to reduce road transport volume
 s. We find that although these policies can produce tangible results they 
 may also have unintended and costly consequences. Bio: Stef Proost is full
  professor at the Catholic University of Leuven. At the KULeuven he teache
 s transport environmental and energy economics at the Faculty of Economics
  and Business and at the Engineering Faculty. He is director of a group of
  10 researchers at the Center for Economic Studies that deals with environ
 ment energy and transport topics. He is co-founder of the Energy Institute
  of the KULeuven and co-founder of the spin-off Transport Mobility Leuven 
 (TML)). He is specialised in using mathematical models to address public p
 olicy questions: optimal pricing and investment in transport choice of pol
 icy instruments for environmental policy energy pricing questions. He is c
 o-author of the models TRENEN TREMOVE MOLINO MARKAL and GEM-E3 that are us
 ed widely in the EU. He coordinated and participated in several European r
 esearch consortia (TRENEN-II FUNDING GEM-E3 PRIMES MARKAL CAPRI AUTO-OIL 2
  UNITE MC-ICAM REVENUE etc.). He has served as expert for EU Administratio
 ns for Transport Environment Energy and Economic and Financial affairs for
  ECMT-OECD UIC for the Federal and Regional governments of Belgium and for
  several other national governments as well as for private firms in the en
 ergy and transport sector. Policy issues he studied over the last years in
 clude the deepening of the Scheldt the Iron-Rhine the Oosterweel bridge in
  Antwerp the selection of TEN-T projects the introduction of road pricing 
 and the climate policy in the transport sector. 
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