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on Transport Economics |
| By: | Sarode, Shruti MS; Segal, Katie MPP; Elkind, Ethan JD |
| Abstract: | California's goal to eliminate internal combustion engine sales by 2035 poses challenges for lower- and moderate-income residents, hindering their access to electric vehicles (EVs). Barriers include limited EV charging stations, exacerbated by lower home ownership and inadequate grid infrastructure in lower-income communities. To address this, UC Berkeley School of Law's Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) partnered with the City of Watsonville. Due to its location, demographics, and ambitious policy goals, Watsonville represents a potential model and case study for other cities around the state grappling with how to boost EV charging infrastructure. CLEE conducted stakeholder interviews and a convening in Watsonville in May2023, and developed a set of policy recommendations for both state and local entities to accelerate investment in EV charging infrastructure in Watsonville, which could inform other cities facing similar challenges and seeking to meet state targets and residents’ needs. |
| Keywords: | Law, Electric vehicle charging, electric vehicles, zero emission vehicles, low income groups, underserved communities, policy analysis |
| Date: | 2023–12–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cdl:itsrrp:qt6r1147v7&r=tre |
| By: | Sileo, Antonio; Bonacina, Monica |
| Abstract: | This paper studies the effects of the latest European regulations on carbon emissions on the Italian car market and discusses the possibility of achieving climate neutrality of road transport through the “mere” replacement of cars currently on the road with new zero-emission cars. Since 2016, automakers’ production strategies have changed dramatically, with an increasing number of zero (and low) emission models on car lists. To date, these changes on the supply side have not been matched by similar changes in purchasing habits. In recent years, not only have few zero (and low) emission cars been sold, but also few new cars. Unless epoch-making changes occur, it is completely unrealistic to think that we can achieve climate neutrality by 2050 by leveraging exclusively on the renewal of the fleet. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024–01–15 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:feemwp:339238&r=tre |
| By: | Kim, Sang-O; Palm, Matthew; Han, Soojung; Klein, Nicholas J. (Conrell University) |
| Abstract: | Transportation scholars are keenly interested in the relationship between transportation and subjective well-being. To date, this body of scholarship has not addressed feelings of time pressure. We use the time crunch index from Canada’s 2015 General Social Survey (GSS) to analyze the role that transportation resources, travel behavior, and social demographics play in respondents’ self-reported experiences of time pressure. We find that resources and daily travel strongly affect the time crunch index and are compounded by the large effect of sociodemographic vulnerability, namely being a woman, immigrant, or member of an ethnic minority, and having a condition of disability. Our analysis presents a new approach for transportation scholars to measure the relationship between social well-being and transportation grounded in several decades of social science research on time use and well-being. |
| Date: | 2023–12–27 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:z6tvd&r=tre |
| By: | Lee, Yongsung; Circella, Giovanni; Chen, Grace; Kim, Ilsu; Mokhtarian, Patricia L. |
| Abstract: | Pooled trips in private vehicles, or pooling, can lead to smaller environmental impacts and more efficient use of the limited roadway capacity, especially during peak hours. However, pooling has not been well adopted in part because of difficulties in coordinating schedules among various travelers and the lack of flexibility to changes in schedules and locations. In the meantime, ridehailing (RH) provides pooled services at a discounted fare (compared to the single-travel-party option) via advanced information and communication technology. This study examines individuals’ preferences for/against pooled RH services using information collected among travelers answering a set of questions related to their last RH trip. In doing so, both trip attributesand rider characteristics are considered. Taste heterogeneity is modeled in a way that assumes the presence of unobserved groups (i.e., latent classes), each with unique preferences, in a given sample of RH riders (N=1, 190) recruited in four metropolitan regions in Southern U.S. cities from June 2019 to March 2020. The researchers find two latent classes with qualitatively different preferences, choosy poolers and non-selective poolers, regarding their choice in favor of/against pooling based on wait time, travel costs, purpose, and travel party size of the last RH trip. Personal characteristics are also identified, specifically age and three attitudes (travel satisfaction, environmentalism, and travel multitasking), which account for individuals’ class membership. This research contributes to the literature by explicitly modeling taste heterogeneity towards pooled ridehailing. In addition, unlike existing studies either at the person level or employing stated-preference data, a trip-level analysis is performed in connection with revealed preferences, which generates more realistic and relevant implications to policy and practice. View the NCST Project Webpage |
| Keywords: | Social and Behavioral Sciences, Shared mobility, pooled ridehailing, stated preferences, latent- class choice model, taste heterogeneity |
| Date: | 2024–01–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cdl:itsdav:qt1dc3v8ms&r=tre |
| By: | Boeing, Geoff (Northeastern University); Pilgram, Clemens; Lu, Yougeng |
| Abstract: | This study estimates the relationships between street network characteristics and transport-sector CO2 emissions across every urban area in the world and investigates whether they are the same across development levels and urban design paradigms. The prior literature has estimated relationships between street network design and transport emissions---including greenhouse gases implicated in climate change---primarily through case studies focusing on certain world regions or relatively small samples of cities, complicating generalizability and applicability for evidence-informed practice. Our worldwide study finds that straighter, more-connected, and less-overbuilt street networks are associated with lower transport emissions, all else equal. Importantly, these relationships vary across development levels and design paradigms---yet most prior literature reports findings from urban areas that are outliers by global standards. Planners need a better empirical base for evidence-informed practice in under-studied regions, particularly the rapidly urbanizing Global South. |
| Date: | 2024–01–02 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:r32vj&r=tre |
| By: | Rodríguez Laconich, Mical |
| Abstract: | In 2020, Paraguay’s National Connectivity Report was prepared as part of the United Nations Development Account project “Sustainable transport connectivity and implementation of transport-related SDGs in selected landlocked and transit/bridging countries”. The report contains 161 indicators that assess rail, road, and inland waterway transport in Paraguay, concerning areas such as the regulatory and administrative framework for border crossings, quality of transport infrastructure, quality of regulations on transport of dangerous goods and perishable foodstuffs, and efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and other atmospheric pollutants, and noise emissions. This document updates the indicators and extends their reach by including a new section on social development. In the current context, given the challenges the world is facing, it is crucial to consider the International Labour Organization (ILO) Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) as well as gender equality, climate change, and improved national statistical systems when developing the Vienna Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024. National Connectivity Reports are an excellent tool for landlocked developing countries to voluntarily evaluate and report progress implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Vienna Programme of Action. |
| Date: | 2024–01–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ecr:col022:68799&r=tre |