In a public filing for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), we provide comment on the recently proposed Federal Automated Vehicles Policy. Our central concern is the agencies suggestion to construct a new premarket regulatory authority for automated vehicles modeled on the...

This work aims to investigate the impact of Uber’s consolidation in reducing car accidents on trips made on days and times where there might be larger flows of people under the influence of alcohol or any other substances that negatively affect their cognitive abilities after attending parties...

The autonomous vehicle (AV) industry works very hard to createpublic trust in both AV technology and its developers. Building trust is part of a strategy to permit the industry itself to manage the testing and deployment of AV technology without regulatory interference. In this article, we...

Three mega cities in China – Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou – have implemented a unique quota policy to control car ownership growth. In this paper, we explore how special characteristics of China's rapid urbanisation and motorisation contribute to the formulation of this unique policy....

The emissions reductions from the adoption of a new transportation technology depend on the emissions from the new technology relative to those from the displaced technology. We evaluate the emissions reductions from electric vehicles (EVs) by identifying which vehicles would have been purchased...

What factors determine whether it is optimal with one or more technologies in a decarbonized road transport sector, and what policies should governments choose? We investigate these questions theoretically and numerically through a static, partial equilibrium model for the road transport market....

We use micro-level data on fuel consumption, mileage, and travel mode to study plug-in hybrid drivers’ response to fuel prices. When fuel prices rise, plug-in hybrids reduce fuel consumption more than gasoline and diesel cars. They do not reduce their mileage but increase electric recharging,...

Free-Floating Car Sharing is a potential substitute to private car ownership. Using an original administrative dataset on car registrations, the staggered rollout pattern of the novel service in German cities is exploited with a difference-in-difference methodology to estimate the impact of...

Countries differ considerably in terms of the price drivers pay for gasoline. This paper uses data for 132 countries for the period 1995–2008 to investigate the implications of these differences for the consumption of gasoline for road transport. To address the potential for simultaneity bias,...

Using data from the auction of vehicle quota licenses in Singapore, we study if revenue equivalence holds when the auction format was switched from a sealed-bid format (May 1990 to June 2001) to an open bidding format since July 2001. Our econometric analysis indicates the change in auction...