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UK transport decoupling: On track for clean growth in transport?

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  • Nelson, Ewan
  • Warren, Peter

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•Fills a gap between academic and policy/grey literature on decoupling in transport.•A novel policy-orientated decoupling analysis methodology is developed.•Identifies a lack of significant decoupling in UK transport between 1997 and 2015.•Decoupling within planetary boundaries requires a large shift from current trends.•Improvements in decoupling analysis for transport policy research are suggested.

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  • Nelson, Ewan & Warren, Peter, 2020. "UK transport decoupling: On track for clean growth in transport?," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 90(C), pages 39-51.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:trapol:v:90:y:2020:i:c:p:39-51
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2020.02.007
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