Car Fleet Renewal Schemes Environmental And Safety Impacts

Many governments around the world have offered subsidized automotive fleet renewal programs to help stimulate the economy during economic downturns.

Car fleet renewal schemes environmental and safety impacts. Car fleet renewal schemes. The international transport forum has released a report that assesses three car fleet renewal schemes the french prime à la casse the german umweltprämie and the united states cars program. The study comes to some interesting conclusions. Cost effectiveness of the fleet renewal schemes analysed from the perspective of co2 and nox reduction and increased safety.

The report evaluates the programs cost effectiveness in relation to reducing co2 and nox emissions as well as toward improving road safety. But the gains are insufficient to make up for the value of the scrapped cars in some cases the net losses were large. 2 3 effect of the fleet renewal scheme in germany on road safety. These programs encourage consumer spending on vehicles during times when the economy is weak.

Itf study finds limited environmental and safety impacts of car fleet renewal schemes in us france and germany. 62 car fleet renewal schemes. Many governments have subsidised fleet renewal schemes to stimulate consumer spending on cars during economic downturns. Environmental and safety impacts france germany and the united states.

Subsidies are often linked to the environmental performance of vehicles but how effective is accelerated fleet renewal in reducing emissions and can schemes be designed to improve the safety of cars on the road this report examines three of the largest. Environmental and safety impacts oecd itf 2011.