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Fuel Efficiency Versus Fuel Substitution in the Transport Sector : An Econometric Analysis
Hochman, Gal - 2017
The transport sector offers limited options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as compared with other sectors, such as … emissions through fuel substitution or transportation service demand reduction, this study estimates own- and cross …-price elasticities of various fuels used for transportation. The analysis shows, like many previous studies, that an increase in fuel …
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Potential Climate Change Mitigation Opportunities in the Transport Sector in Vietnam
RCEE Energy and Environment JSC - 2009
Vietnam's transport sector plays an important role in its socioeconomic development. Passenger transport helps meets … daily needs and contributes significantly to tourist service development while freight transport helps meet the country …'s demand for delivery of raw materials and of semi-finished products to production facilities and for transport of finished …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247134
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A Strategy for Slovakia's Transport Sector
World Bank - 2001
Slovakia's transport sector has not suffered from the dramatic reductions in demand and neglect of its infrastructure … that have afflicted many of its neighbors. However, current under-maintenance is eating away at the stock of transport … commercializing its transport operations has not progressed far enough to put them in a strong position to confront the pressures they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248520
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Willingness to pay for electricity access in extreme poverty : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Sievert, Maximiliane; Steinbuks, Jevgenijs - 2019
Improving electricity access in low-income countries is a challenging problem because of the high costs of grid extension and low demand for grid electricity in rural areas. This study elucidates these constraints by analyzing poor households' willingness-to-pay for different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051950
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Vulnerabilities of networked energy infrastructure : a primer : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : background paper
Schweikert, Amy; Nield, Lindsey; Otto, Erica; Klemun, … - 2019
Considerable work has been done to understand and improve the resilience of individual infrastructure components. However, systems of components, or even systems of systems, are far less well understood. Cascade effects, where the loss of one infrastructure affects others, is a major source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052020
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Resilience and critical power system infrastructure : lessons learned from natural disasters and future research needs : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : backg...
Schweikert, Amy; Nield, Lindsey; Otto, Erica; Deinert, Mark - 2019
Resilience against infrastructure failure is essential for ensuring the health and safety of communities during and following natural hazard situations. Understanding how natural hazards impact society in terms of economic cost, recovery time, and damages to critical infrastructure is essential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052024
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Underutilized potential : the business costs of unreliable infrastructure in developing countries : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : background paper
Rentschler, Jun; Kornejew, Martin; Hallegatte, Stéphane; … - 2019
low- and -middle-income countries. Specifically, this study assesses the impact of transport, electricity, and water … a year-of which 107 billion dollar are due to transport disruptions, 38 billion dollar due to blackouts, and 6 billion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052026
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Candle in the wind? : energy system resilience to natural shocks : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : background paper
Rentschler, Jun; Obolensky, Marguerite; Kornejew, Martin - 2019
This study finds that natural shocks-storms in particular-are a significant and often leading cause for power supply disruptions. This finding is based on 20 years of high frequency (i.e. daily) data on power outages and climate variables in 28 countries-Bangladesh, the United States and 26...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052034
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Learning from power sector reform : the case of Pakistan
Bacon, Robert W. - 2019
Pakistan's power sector underwent a substantial, if protracted, reform process. Beginning with an independent power producer program in 1994, the full unbundling of the national vertically integrated power and water utility, the Water and Power Development Authority, and the establishment of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022361
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Learning from power sector reform : the case of the Philippines
Bacon, Robert W. - 2019
The Philippines power sector underwent a substantial and largely complete reform process. Following a severe shortage of supply in the late 1980s and the Asian Financial crisis of 1997, which made the dollar-denominated debt of the National Power Corporation extremely burdensome, the Electric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022385