Focusing on individual motorists in car-owning households in Germany, this analysis econometrically investigates the determinants of automobile travel for non-work service activities against the backdrop of two questions: 1) Does gender play a role in determining the probability of car use and...

Far from protecting the environment, most rail transit lines use more energy per passenger mile, and many generate more greenhouse gases, than the average passenger automobile. Rail transit provides no guarantee that a city will save energy or meet greenhouse gas targets. While most rail transit...

Growing awareness about the environmental hazards of increasing concentration of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide etc. in the atmosphere resulting in global warming and increasing demand of energy with rapidly increase population, throws urgent need for exploring...

We identify behavioral responses, defined as “voluntary exposure benefits,” that have the potential to offset measured costs of climate change. We quantify these responses for the transportation sector. We find warmer temperatures and reduced snowfall are associated with an increase in fatal...

We exploit a unique panel of 75 metro areas (‘cities') across the globe and employ a city-fixed effects model to identify the determinants of within-city changes in air pollution concentration between 2005 and 2011. Increasing car and population densities significantly reduce air pollution...

We exploit a unique panel of 75 metro areas (‘cities') across the globe and employ a city-fixed effects model to identify the determinants of within-city changes in air pollution concentration between 2005 and 2011. Increasing car and population densities significantly reduce air pollution...

Objective – This article aims to preliminarily examine and summarize the impact of COVID-19 on airline business and to briefly investigate how the airlines respond.Methodology/Technique – The researchers synthesize data and information collected from industry organizations' reports and...

The COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has refocused attention on remote working, raising questions about its future trajectory, the reasons for its prevalence, and the potential implications for urban areas. Examining data from four large-scale U.S. surveys from 2000 to the cusp of the pandemic,...

Every year, nearly 5,000 patients die while waiting for kidney transplants, and yet an estimated 3,500 procured kidneys are discarded. Such a polarized co-existence of dire scarcity and massive wastefulness has been mainly driven by insufficient pooling of cadaveric kidneys across geographic...

Natural disasters cause economic damages and may exacerbate disparities in income distribution among countries across the globe. This article employs satellite data on real-time active fire locations to evaluate the short-term impact of forest fires on economic inequality around the world. Using...