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Information Technology and Efficiency in Trucking

Barla, Philippe - 2015

In this paper, we develop an econometric model to estimate the impacts of Electronic Vehicle Management Systems (EVMS) on the load factor (LF) of heavy trucks using data at the operational level. This technology is supposed to improve capacity utilization by reducing coordination costs between...

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Assessing Consumer Preferences for Clean-Fuel Vehicles : A Discrete Choice Experiment

Ewing, Gordon; Sarigollu, Emine - 2015

This research assesses preferences for clean-fuel vehicles (CFVs) versus the conventional vehicle using a discrete choice experiment. The results show that although consumers value environmental impact, vehicle performance characteristics are critical to choice. It is found that regulation is...

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The Effectiveness of Public Transit Subsidies on Ridership and the Environment : Evidence from Canada

Rivers, Nicholas; Plumptre, Bora - 2016

We analyze the public transit tax credit (PTTC) introduced by the Canadian federal government in 2006. Using disaggregate microdata from the 2006 Census and 2011 National Household Survey, we apply a quasi-experimental difference-in-difference method to isolate the causal impact of the policy on...

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Safety in Numbers : Evaluating Canadian Rail Safety Data

Winter, Jennifer - 2014

being raised publicly about the safety of Canada’s rail-transport system. Unfortunately, Canada’s public rail-safety data … volatile goods across Canada arguably expose entire communities, as in Lac-Mégantic, to potentially catastrophic dangers. How … is it, then, that the Transportation Safety Board, Transport Canada and Statistics Canada do not even publicly report …

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Electric Vehicles and the Energy Transition : Unintended Consequences of a Common Retail Rate Design

Bailey, Megan R.; Brown, David P.; Meyers, Erica; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The growth of electric vehicles (EVs) raises new challenges for electricity systems. We implement a field experiment to assess the effect of time-of-use (TOU) pricing and managed charging on EV charging behavior. We find that while TOU pricing is effective at shifting EV charging into off-peak...

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Deconstructing Canada's housing markets : finance, affordability urban sprawl

Cheung, Calista - 2014

House prices have increased significantly in Canada over the past decade, driving household debt and residential … Economic Review of Canada (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/Canada). …

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Policy-Induced Internal Migration : An Empirical Investigation of the Canadian Case

Day, Kathleen M.; Winer, Stanley L. - 2021

We investigate the influence of public policy on interprovincial migration in Canada using new aggregated migration …

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Multi-level governance for migrant integration : Policy instruments from Austria, Canada, France, Germany and Italy

OECD - 2022

Comprehensive and coordinated action across levels of government responsible for different policy domains (labour, education, housing and welfare/health) as well as across local actors is crucial to migrant integration. To respond to this need for co-ordination, different policy instruments are...

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Controlling Great Lakes Pollution : A Study in United States - Canadian Environmental Cooperation

Bilder, Richard - 2013

This article is a study of the then proposed 1971 U.S.-Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and the long history … boundary water pollution problems and, in particular, the 1909 U.S.-Canada Boundary Waters Treaty, the U.S.-Canada …

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