China promulgated the Medium and Long-Term Development Plan for Renewable Energy in 2007, which included targets of 2010 and 2020 for various renewable energy technologies including biofuels. The 2010 biofuel targets were met and even surpassed except for non-grain fuel ethanol; however, there...

The Deepwater Horizon oil discharge in the Gulf of Mexico is considered to be one of the worst environmental disasters to date. The spread of the oil spill and its consequences thereof had various environmental impacts. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in conjunction...

In this paper, we will discuss the urban road network improvement problem from both supply and demand sides, and propose a bilevel programming model considering joint optimal link-based tradable credit charging scheme and road capacity improvement. The upper level decision-maker tries to...

With the approach of introducing the conceptions of mental account and mental budgeting into the process of travelers’ route choice, we try to identify why the usages of tolled roads are often overestimated. Assuming that every traveler sets a mental account for his/her travel to keep track of...

Road traffic congestion is not yet reflected in current market prices within the sector and has given rise to a number of instruments to mitigate the resulting negative impacts. The focus of this paper is the tradable credit scheme - an incentive-based economic measure - in order to address...