Energy Efficiency in Transportation along with the Belt and Road Countries

Akbar, Usman and Popp, József and Khan, Hameed and Khan, Muhammad Asif and Oláh, Judit (2020) Energy Efficiency in Transportation along with the Belt and Road Countries. ENERGIES, 13 (10). pp. 1-20. ISSN 1996-1073

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Abstract

China’s huge investment in the “belt and road initiative” (BRI) may have helped improve the economic level of participating countries, but it may also be accompanied by a substantial increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The BRI corridors aim to bring regional stability and prosperity. In such efforts, energy efficiency due to increased transport has been overlooked in the recent literature. This paper employed a data envelopment analysis of the slack-based measurement (SBM) for bad output to assess the transport energy efficiency of 19 countries under the BRI economic corridors. By using the most cited transport-related input variables, such as vehicles, labor, motor oil, jet fuel, and natural gas, this study first analyzes the transport energy efficiency by first assuming the output variables individually and then takes two years as a pre- and post-BRI case by considering the aggregated output model. The results show an increase in economic activity but a decline in transport energy efficiency in terms of consumption and emissions.

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