Federal Statistical Office of Germany © Federal Statistical Office of Germany, Environmental-Economical Accounting, 2006 London Group Meeting – New York, June 2006 The German sectoral reporting module on transport and environment Walther Adler / Karl Schoer Federal Statistical Office Germany, Environmental-Economic Accounting

Federal Statistical Office of Germany © Federal Statistical Office of Germany, Environmental-Economical Accounting, 2006 Overview 1 Goals 2 Methodology 3 Analysis 2.1 Transport’s share on environmental pressures 2.2 The environmental efficiency of transport 2.3 Decomposition of change of the transport-related environmental pressures 2.4 Decomposition of change of freight transport performance 2.5 Econometric modelling of environmental-economic effects of transport

Federal Statistical Office of Germany © Federal Statistical Office of Germany, Environmental-Economical Accounting, 2006 Goals of the Project -Sectoral reporting modules: deepening (disaggregation of existing variables) and enhancing (inclusion of new variables) of the EEA-standard data-set in order to obtain more detailed and integrated accounting data on issues that are especially policy relevant. -Mobility is a important topic of sustainable development policy -There strong interlinkages between transport and other SD topics (need for integrated accounting data)

Federal Statistical Office of Germany © Federal Statistical Office of Germany, Environmental-Economical Accounting, 2006 Methodology 1 - Definition: motorised transportation of people and freight over land and water, and in the air. -Integration: transport data a accounting satellite system (same concepts, definitions, classifications) = mainly reformatting of existing data - Accounting concepts for transport: Production perspective (who is the produces of the transport service?): production of transport services by resident units (homogeneous branches in a NAMEA-type breakdown / mode of transport) Use perspective (who is the user of the transport service?): transport of goods for intermediate or final use (in a NAMEA-type breakdown) on the economic territory -Variables: Kilometres driven, passenger and freight transport performance, transport related energy use, transport related air emissions, land use (transport area)

Federal Statistical Office of Germany © Federal Statistical Office of Germany, Environmental-Economical Accounting, 2006 Methodology 2 Calculation method (so far only production perspective): Example road transport: Starting point: stock of vehicles in a detailed breakdown by type and technical classes as well as by type of owner. The ownership classification is transformed into the classification of economic activities (production branches, private households) of the national accounts by using various data which are available in the National Accounts on asset stocks and burden distributions of mineral oil tax. Those stock data are the basis for assigning the flow information on kilometres covered, transport performance, energy and emissions to the economic activities.

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Federal Statistical Office of Germany © Federal Statistical Office of Germany, Environmental-Economical Accounting, 2006 Decomposition analysis of freight transport performance The freight transport performance itself can be depicted as a mathematical product of five factors: Scale effect: Change of GDP at constant prices. Degree of tertiarisation (service sector share): gross value added of material production to total production (VAM / GDP). Factual division of labour in the material production: relationship between total supply of material goods in monetary units to the gross value added of material goods production (TSM/VAM). Degree of refining of the transported goods: total weight of the transported goods is related to the total supply of material goods in monetary terms (TONS/TSM). Spatial differentiation of economic activities: freight transport performance to total freight volume in tonnes (FTP/TONS)..

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