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Energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission trends in Mexican road transport
Juan Carlos Solís , Claudia Sheinbaum

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Energy for Sustainable Development > 2013 > 17 > 3 > 280-287

Abstract
The transport sector is the main contributor to CO 2 emissions in Mexico accounting for 39% in 2010, of which road
transport represented 92%. This paper presents a disaggregation of the fuel consumption and its related CO 2
emissions from passenger and freight road transport in Mexico, based on a bottom-up model. Results show that
private gasoline-powered vehicles represented 32.6% of CO 2 emissions in 2010, followed by gasoline light duty
freight vehicles with 25%, diesel interurban buses, 11.3% and diesel heavy duty freight vehicles, 12%. A simple
econometric model shows that gasoline price increases have not impacted gasoline demand. Mitigation of GHG
emissions must be based on policies aimed to reduce fuel consumption in gasoline vehicles, such as through fuel
efficiency standards, but also reduction of the use of private cars by public transportation and logistics operation for
light freight transportation.

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journal ISSN : 0973-0826
DOI 10.1016/j.esd.2012.12.001

Authors
Juan Carlos Solís Claudia Sheinbaum

Keywords

CO2 emissions Bottom-up Road transport Mexico

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Publication English
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Data set: Elsevier

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Elsevier Science

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