mobility in Austria

The current problems arising from motorized individual transport – e.g. greenhouse gas emissions – lead to an urgent need for implementing efficient and effective policy measures. To get a reliable appraisal of the effects of different types of policies it is very important to know the impact of different parameters like prices, investment costs, fuel intensities on increases in energy and underlying service demand (more vehicles, larger cars, more total km driven). The major results and conclusions of this analysis are: (i) The chosen parameters provide very good estimates for explaining the consumption of the energy service “individual mobility ” in Austria. (ii) The analyses of underlying service demand parameters and efficiency provides additional and deeper insight on the impact of different economic parameters. Actually, all components of short-term and long-term service demand depend significantly on income. The long-term components – number of new vehicles and the power index – also depend on fuel prices and investment costs. (iii) Most important is to state that fuel price increases lead to significant efficiency improvements and straightforward energy savings. However, these effects are – if prices drop – outweighed by increases especially in short-term km driven. (iv) A significant impact of cross-border “tank tourism ” is identified (v) The share of new diesel vehicles is significantly dependent with best fitting on service price and demand for total km driven. 1