Following market liberalisation, the vehicle population in China has increased dramatically over the past few decades. This paper examines the causal impact of the opening of a heavily used high speed rail line connecting two megacities in China in 2015, Chengdu and Chongqing, on air pollution....

Der städtische Verkehr ist für die internationalen Bemühungen zur Minderung von Treibhausgasen von zunehmender Bedeutung. Zum einen ist der Verkehr insgesamt seit Längerem ein Sorgenkind der Klimapolitik. Der Verkehrssektor ist für etwa 13% der gesamten weltweiten Treibhausgasemissionen und...

Der städtische Verkehr ist für die internationalen Bemühungen zur Minderung von Treibhausgasen von zunehmender Bedeutung. Zum einen ist der Verkehr insgesamt seit Längerem ein Sorgenkind der Klimapolitik. Der Verkehrssektor ist für etwa 13% der gesamten weltweiten Treibhausgasemissionen und...

Corporate social responsibility is a complex concept, where ecology is one of the key elements. From the point of view of logistics, care for the environment and respect for non-renewable resources is a particularly important issue. The essence of logistics is the movement of people and cargo,...

Pollution and congestion in urban areas are serious externalities that can be mitigated through the adoption of either price- or quantity-based mechanisms. While price restrictions are occasionally applied, quantity constraints based on car vintage are becoming increasingly popular. Our model...

Urban road infrastructure is crucial in determining air pollution. Yet, little is known about the roles played by road width vs. road length. This paper attempts to fill this gap by estimating the effects of road infrastructure on 10-micron particulate matter (PM10) using city-level data from...

The great weight that the car has as a means of mobility in large cities generates significant negative externalities both in terms of pollution and congestion. The goal of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of low emission zones (LEZ), which are being implemented extensively in Europe....

This paper assesses the pros and the cons of installing batteries on offshore support vessels. These vessels are specially designed to provide services to oil and gas operations, such as anchor handling, supply and subsea operations. They have multiple engines and advanced dynamic positioning...

Referring to 1995-2011 China's provincial panel data, this paper constructs an econometric model consisting of environmental regulation, public participation and pollution industrial transfer, and mainly focuses on the role of environmental regulation and public participation in the pollution...

We examine four discontinuities in the ethanol content in blended gasoline fuel, mandated by Brazil's central government over the period 2010 to 2013, to test the joint hypotheses that (1) atmospheric ozone production in the São Paulo metropolitan area is limited by the volume and reactivity of...