TERM reports 2022 - 2026
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2022
The European Environment Agency annually publishes the TERM report, which maps the environmental impacts of transport activities and progress towards transport policy goals. TML leads the preparation of the TERM reports for 2022-2026 and prepares three briefings on the status of transport and environment, transport demand, and transport climate policy, focusing on the role of digitisation in making mobility sustainable.
Every year, the European Environment Agency publishes its TERM report, which examines the environmental impact of transport activities. This annual report provides an overview of current transport and environmental developments and charts progress towards transport policy goals. Within the European Topic Centre for Climate Change Mitigation (ETC/CM), we lead the task of preparing the reports for the years 2022 - 2026.
The TERM 2022 report explores how and to what extent digitisation can contribute to reducing the environmental impacts of passenger and freight transport in urban and non-urban contexts. To this end, the report discusses nine applications of digital technologies that are currently central to mobility policymaking: teleworking and virtual mobility, autonomous passenger and freight transport, multimodal services, smart logistics, digital tools for transport demand management, air traffic control, and digital solutions for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants.
In all these areas, digitalisation has the potential to make the mobility system more sustainable and promote positive behavioural changes, fair business models, and system-level optimisation. At the same time, digitalisation can put pressure on the environment: it can increase transport demand through improved efficiency and lower costs and make less sustainable forms of mobility more attractive. To realise the potential of digital technologies, it is fundamental to properly monitor the effects.
As next steps in the work for the ETC-CM, TML is preparing three briefings for the EEA:
Every year, the European Environment Agency publishes its TERM report, which examines the environmental impact of transport activities. This annual report provides an overview of current transport and environmental developments and charts progress towards transport policy goals. Within the European Topic Centre for Climate Change Mitigation (ETC/CM), we lead the task of preparing the reports for the years 2022 - 2026.
The TERM 2022 report explores how and to what extent digitisation can contribute to reducing the environmental impacts of passenger and freight transport in urban and non-urban contexts. To this end, the report discusses nine applications of digital technologies that are currently central to mobility policymaking: teleworking and virtual mobility, autonomous passenger and freight transport, multimodal services, smart logistics, digital tools for transport demand management, air traffic control, and digital solutions for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants.
In all these areas, digitalisation has the potential to make the mobility system more sustainable and promote positive behavioural changes, fair business models, and system-level optimisation. At the same time, digitalisation can put pressure on the environment: it can increase transport demand through improved efficiency and lower costs and make less sustainable forms of mobility more attractive. To realise the potential of digital technologies, it is fundamental to properly monitor the effects.
As next steps in the work for the ETC-CM, TML is preparing three briefings for the EEA:
- A core briefing on the status of transport and its environmental impacts.
- A briefing on transport demand.
- A briefing on climate policy for transport.
General background info on ETC/CM
The European Topic Centres are consortia with thematic expertise designated by the European Environment Agency. Together with European Environment Agency member countries and other cooperating countries, they facilitate the provision of data, information, and knowledge and provide reports and other services to the European Environment Agency and its European Information and Observation Network (EIONET). The European Topic Centre for Climate Change Mitigation (ETC/CM) pools the expertise of 15 European partner organisations to support the European Environment Agency on greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation measures, with a focus on the building, energy, and transport sectors.
The European Topic Centres are consortia with thematic expertise designated by the European Environment Agency. Together with European Environment Agency member countries and other cooperating countries, they facilitate the provision of data, information, and knowledge and provide reports and other services to the European Environment Agency and its European Information and Observation Network (EIONET). The European Topic Centre for Climate Change Mitigation (ETC/CM) pools the expertise of 15 European partner organisations to support the European Environment Agency on greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation measures, with a focus on the building, energy, and transport sectors.
