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The External Costs of Transporting Petroleum Products by Pipelines and Rail : Evidence From Shipments of Crude Oil from North Dakota

Clay, Karen - 2017

This paper constructs new estimates of the air pollution and greenhouse gas costs from long-distance movement of petroleum products by rail and pipelines. While crude oil transportation has generated intense policy debate about rail and pipeline spills and accidents, important externalities -...

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Trade and the Greenhouse Gas Emissions from International Freight Transport

Cristea, Anca D. - 2011

responsible for 33 percent of world-wide trade-related emissions, and over 75 percent of emissions for major manufacturing … production emissions per dollar of exports are 16 percent below the world average, but once we include transport US emissions per … dollar exported are 59 percent above the world average. We use our data to systematically investigate whether trade inclusive …

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Citywide Effects of High-Occupancy Vehicle Restrictions : Evidence from the Elimination of ‘3-in-1’ in Jakarta

Hanna, Rema - 2017

In cities worldwide, the widespread use of single occupancy cars often leads to traffic congestion and its associated ill effects. Using high frequency data from Google Maps, we test whether high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) policies can be an effective tool to combat congestion. Using the unexpected...

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The Fast, the Slow, and the Congested : Urban Transportation in Rich and Poor Countries

Akbar, Prottoy; Couture, Victor; Duranton, Gilles; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We assemble a new global database on motor vehicle travel speed in over 1,200 large cities in 152 countries. We then estimate comparable city-level indices of travel speed and congestion. Most of the variation in urban travel speed is across countries, not within. National income per capita...

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School Bus Emissions, Student Health, and Academic Performance

Austin, Wes - 2019

Diesel emissions from school buses expose children to high levels of air pollution; retrofitting bus engines can substantially reduce this exposure. Using variation from 2,656 retrofits across Georgia, we estimate effects of emissions reductions on district-level health and academic achievement....

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Should Electric Vehicle Drivers Pay a Mileage Tax?

Davis, Lucas W. - 2019

In many countries the revenue from gasoline taxes is used to fund highways and other transportation infrastructure. As the number of electric vehicles on the road increases, this raises questions about the effectiveness and equity of this financing mechanism. In this paper, we ask whether...

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Vehicle Choices, Miles Driven, and Pollution Policies

Feng, Ye - 2005

A nested logit structure is used to model discrete choices among different vehicle bundles. We also consider continuous choices of miles driven and the age of each vehicle. We propose a consistent estimation method for both discrete and continuous demands in one step, to capture the interactive...

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Cost-Effective Policies to Reduce Vehicle Emissions

Fullerton, Don - 2005

This paper uses an estimated demand system that accounts for heterogeneity to calculate and compare the lost consumer surplus from a higher tax on gasoline, a tax on distance, or a subsidy for buying a newer car. We introduce a view of cost-effectiveness that compares policies instead of...

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Distributional Effects of Air Pollution from Electric Vehicle Adoption

Holland, Stephen P. - 2016

We examine the distributional effects of changes in local air pollution from driving electric vehicles in the United States. We employ an econometric model to estimate power plant emissions and an integrated assessment model to value damages in air pollution from both electric and gasoline...

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Sufficient Statistics for Imperfect Externality-Correcting Policies

Jacobsen, Mark R. - 2016

Pigouvian taxes can fully correct for market failures due to externalities, but actual policies are commonly forced to deviate from the Pigouvian ideal due to administrative or political constraints. This paper derives sufficient statistics, which require a minimum of market information, that...

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