External costs of transport
Indicator Fact Sheet
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IND-175-en
Also known as:
TERM 025
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Assessment made on 01 Jan 2001
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Topics:DPSIR: Impact
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- TERM 025
Policy issue: Reduction of external costs of transport
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The external costs of transport in the EU amount to around 8 % of GDP. Motorised road transport - which takes the highest share in both freight and passenger trips - accounts for more than 90 % of these costs. Accidents, noise, air pollution and climate change are the most important external costs.
Passenger transport is estimated to be responsible for 65 % of total external costs. The average external costs (per passenger-km) of cars are the highest, then aircraft, bus and train. For freight, water and rail transport have the lowest external costs per tonne-km, with air transport and trucking 10 and 5 times, respectively, more than rail.
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