CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Tóth, Csaba |
|---|---|
| Title | Carpooling and carsharing in Hungary: barriers, possibilities, potentials |
| Summary | Climate change mitigation scenarios focus primarily on technological measures and overlook the non-technological options which are considered as negligible or unrealizable. This paper aims to evaluate the mitigation potentials of carpooling and carsharing in Hungary as two non-technological options to utilize the untapped capacities associated with one of the most basic, but typically underused assets of people. To achieve this aim, surveys targeting the general public, the users of a carpooling scheme and the stakeholders of carpooling and carsharing were performed and analyzed in order to identify travel patterns, the willingness to carpool, as well as the barriers and possibilities of these services. Then, using different assumptions based on the survey and literature results, three different GHG emission reduction potentials of carpooling and carsharing were estimated. The estimations suggest that, while the maximal potentials, which assume a maximum-intensity use of carpooling and carsharing, are rather large, the potentially available practical and cultural potentials are significantly lower primarily due to the too low cost of car use. Moreover, the GHG emission avoided by the current level of carpooling is only a small fraction even compared to the cultural potentials due to the lack of information and initiatives by employers, and the fact that no carsharing scheme operates in Hungary is presumably due to the high investment cost, to the lack of political will and to certain cultural concepts. At the end of the thesis, policy recommendations are formulated in order to achieve larger emission savings by these mobility services in Hungary. |
| Supervisor | Alan Watt |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/toth_csaba_02.pdf |
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