Environmental resilience of the largest European public transport providers during the COVID-19 pandemic

IF 6 3区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Jordi Rosell
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Abstract

The environmental commitment of public transport authorities plays a role in addressing the challenges ahead. After the COVID-19 pandemic, we can analyze the strength of green commitments during that turbulent time. Green public procurement (GPP) is a government tool dedicated to mitigating the environmental impact of public acquisitions. These actions can be monitored as an indicator that captures efforts for green actions by organizations. GPP adoption rates among public transport suppliers are comparable across countries because they operate in the same sector and share characteristics that facilitate comparison. In this study, the largest public transport suppliers in 38 European cities are compared from 2010 to 2023. A subsample of 13,280 contract notices was employed for the public transport sector from the Tender Electronic Database and GPP adoption was found to be higher on bus vehicle acquisitions than on tramway/metro vehicle acquisitions. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a marked GPP fall. These findings also indicate that while GPP adoption rates are higher among the 38 large public transport suppliers compared with medium and lower ones, the largest ones are not the front-runners in terms of GPP adoption. Our results suggest that environmental priorities are not as significant as one might expect.

欧洲最大公共交通提供商在 COVID-19 大流行期间的环境复原力
公共交通机构的环保承诺在应对未来挑战方面发挥着作用。在 COVID-19 大流行之后,我们可以分析一下在那段动荡时期绿色承诺的力度。绿色公共采购 (GPP) 是一种政府工具,致力于减轻公共采购对环境的影响。这些行动可以作为一项指标进行监测,以反映各组织在绿色行动方面所做的努力。公共交通供应商的 GPP 采用率在各国之间具有可比性,因为它们在同一行业运营,且具有便于比较的共同特征。本研究对欧洲 38 个城市最大的公共交通供应商在 2010 年至 2023 年期间的情况进行了比较。研究采用了招标电子数据库中公共交通行业 13280 份合同通知的子样本,发现公交车辆采购中采用 GPP 的比例高于有轨电车/地铁车辆采购中采用 GPP 的比例。在 COVID-19 大流行期间,全球购买力平价明显下降。这些研究结果还表明,虽然 38 家大型公共交通供应商的 GPP 采用率高于中型和小型供应商,但在采用 GPP 方面,大型供应商并非领跑者。我们的结果表明,环境优先并不像人们预期的那样重要。
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Environmental Sciences Europe
Environmental Sciences Europe Environmental Science-Pollution
CiteScore
11.20
自引率
1.70%
发文量
110
审稿时长
13 weeks
期刊介绍: ESEU is an international journal, focusing primarily on Europe, with a broad scope covering all aspects of environmental sciences, including the main topic regulation. ESEU will discuss the entanglement between environmental sciences and regulation because, in recent years, there have been misunderstandings and even disagreement between stakeholders in these two areas. ESEU will help to improve the comprehension of issues between environmental sciences and regulation. ESEU will be an outlet from the German-speaking (DACH) countries to Europe and an inlet from Europe to the DACH countries regarding environmental sciences and regulation. Moreover, ESEU will facilitate the exchange of ideas and interaction between Europe and the DACH countries regarding environmental regulatory issues. Although Europe is at the center of ESEU, the journal will not exclude the rest of the world, because regulatory issues pertaining to environmental sciences can be fully seen only from a global perspective.
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