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The importance of a focus on mobility and the kilometres travelled using light duty vehicles is reflected in the persistence of strong demand for personal mobility and emissions that tend to be linked with population and economic growth. Simulation results using the WITCH model show that changes...
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Hybrid) model to incorporate road freight and account for the intensity of freight with respect to GDP. Modelling freight … demand based on the intensity of freight with respect to GDP allows for a focus on the importance of road freight with … modelling shows that the decarbonisation of the freight sector tends to occur in the second part of the century and the sector …
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In this article, Professor Kaswan argues that hoped-for greenhouse gas reductions cannot be achieved without reducing consumption. Given their control over land use and buildings, cities can play a key role in reducing consumption. She argues that, while existing federal proposals for a...
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We identify behavioral responses, defined as “voluntary exposure benefits,” that have the potential to offset measured costs of climate change. We quantify these responses for the transportation sector. We find warmer temperatures and reduced snowfall are associated with an increase in fatal...
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Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits greatly exceed the external costs from car use. We...
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Hybrid) model to incorporate road freight and account for the intensity of freight with respect to GDP. Modelling freight … demand based on the intensity of freight with respect to GDP allows for a focus on the importance of road freight with … modelling shows that the decarbonisation of the freight sector tends to occur in the second part of the century and the sector …
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Far from protecting the environment, most rail transit lines use more energy per passenger mile, and many generate more … greenhouse gases, than the average passenger automobile. Rail transit provides no guarantee that a city will save energy or meet … greenhouse gas targets. While most rail transit uses less energy than buses, rail transit does not operate in a vacuum: transit …
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-scale public transport system has the potential to be an effective instrument. High speed rail (HSR) is one such example, yet it is … unclear how much reduction in road traffic results from new rail routes. Using the difference-in-differences (DID) method, we …-point reduction in freight vehicles running on parallel highways. These reductions were not seen on ordinary national roads. These …
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The social costs of pollution and climate change hinge critically on humans' ability to adapt. Based on transaction records from the world's largest payment network, this research compiles daily travel flows and documents that China's rapid expansion of high-speed railways (HSR) facilitates the...
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This report estimates the CO2 emissions of freight transport on a hypothetical high-speed rail (HSR) line along the … the freight-carrying capacity of the future HSR, and the freight modal shift, our results indicate that a best …
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