WestLB publishes new study on Sustainable Mobility

In the last 10 years we’ve entered a new stage in the globalisation process – the world has become ‘flat’. The two major implications are: (1) the demand for transport of goods has been increasing dramatically and will continue to do so (2) due to the increasing individual wealth in emerging markets like China, the demand for individual mobility is rising sharply as well. The looming age of ‘unlimited mobility’ offers enormous economic opportunities for transport-related sectors but can be expected to have unacceptable, unsustainable environmental and social side-effects too. The "Mobility in a flat world - Solving the sustainability equation for transport-related sectors" note has two parts. The first one describes current mobility trends, their causes, their linkages, their implications and possible future development paths. In the second part it takes a closer look at specific issues related to the different transport modes (Road, Rail, Aviation, and Marine) and rate companies according to their exposure vis-à-vis sustainable mobility related factors.
For more information: katrin.frank@westlb.de

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