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The European Transport Industry has been heavily deregulated during the past 30 years, through initiatives that increase competition among incumbents primarily by reducing the entry restrictions and by opening the market(s) for non-state owned companies. This paper discusses the impact the...
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As urbanized areas have grown across the United States, roads have quickly developed with them. Yet many cities have developed this infrastructure at the cost of failing to adequately fund urban mass transit, in spite of the important services it provides for the poor, commuters, and the...
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development of IAM. Using data on emissions, depositions, source-receptor matrix, costs of emission abatement, models describing … emissions of SO2 are still required from the USA, iii) inter-regional trading with the USA can play a major role in reducing …
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reducing emissions from each point source, it was felt necessary to design a method to generate cost functions for emission … plants within a region. The emissions inventories (GECOT and AIRS for the USA and RDIS for Canada) were used as the major … critical loads, policy makers should examine ways of reducing emissions beyond what is already committed for the year 2005 or …
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emissions from all sources. However, this is not compatible with the paradigm of balancing economy with the environment …. Therefore, gradual reductions in emissions as well as depositions were found to be plausible strategy. When depositions are … time resulted in significantly higher reduction in emissions compared to optimization that incorporates all the twelve …
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emissions from all sources. However, this is not compatible with the paradigm of balancing economy with the environment …. Therefore, gradual reductions in emissions as well as depositions were found to be plausible strategy. Furthermore, optimization … using only a single receptor at a time resulted in significantly higher reduction in emissions compared to optimization that …
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This article explores how law can use individual behavior to stabilize and reduce U.S. energy consumption. Drawing on the work of social scientists and behavioral researchers, it concludes that many opportunities exist to influence individual behavior to increase energy efficiency and reduce...
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Eine verbesserte finanzielle Nachhaltigkeit des ÖPNV erleichtert das Erreichen ökologischer und sozialer Nachhaltigkeitsziele, da Verkehre effizienter und kostengünstiger angeboten und ausgeweitet werden können. Dieser Artikel blickt aus den USA auf die beachtlichen Erfolge deutscher...
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Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have the potential to increase efficiency and improve resource allocation. However, contract renegotiations are common and make us question the benefits to PPPs. Under current accounting standards, PPPs allow intertemporal reallocations of infrastructure...
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This paper presents an approach to measuring the values of time cost for freight transportation, and examines its applicability through empirical analysis. We develop the method based on the hedonic approach by explicitly formulating how transport time is determined as market outcome. In the...
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