Showing 791 - 800 of 864
Traffic congestion and trucking activities in the San Francisco Bay Area are increasing due to the rapid population growth and economic expansion. It is imperative to explore transportation alternatives, and the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system, with 63 percent unused capacity on average in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166061
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005399482
-and-one-half years of data, we look at telecommuting frequency, mode choice, and emissions reductions. We also look at reporting behavior ….C., Houston, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia are the five pilot cities. And finally, we use the program’s emissions reduction … barriers to using telecommuting in a mobile source emissions trading program (04-45). The studies by RFF are part of a larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005399497
This work builds upon some long-term secular regularities concerning the relation between consumption of energy, technological progress and economic growth and reassesses the old question raised around forty years ago in the "limits to growth" discussion (Meadows et al. [1972]), namely are the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518690
and ecosystems and by increasing emissions of pollutants. A second perspective argues the opposite relationship holds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518910
This study compares the environmental impacts of urban public transport and automobiles (energy use, emissions, noise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230820
This paper analyses which likely effects international co-operation on climate change, the emissions trading directive … of the European Union currently introduced and the tradable emissions permit systems specified under the UN Framework …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118919
and 75% butanol–gasoline blends for evaluating their engine performance, emissions and combustion characteristics in a … emissions were compared for butanol–gasoline blends vis-a-vis baseline gasoline and an attempt was made to find the reason for …–gasoline blends showed performance, emissions and combustion characteristics similar to gasoline. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011189944
tends to provide a theoretical estimate of methane emissions from both livestock manure in Nigeria and municipal solid waste … Organization (FAO) was used to estimate the methane emissions from animal residues using a mathematical approach developed by the … Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Emissions of methane from solid wastes were also estimated based on the 2011 cities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011190457
As global energy demand rises, natural gas (NG) plays a pivotal role in energy supply. Natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel and it has high energy conversion efficiencies for power generation. Natural gas has been extensively investigated for use in spark-ignition (SI) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011190533