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technologies to improve vehicle efficiency and shift to low-CO2 fuels, we can move onto a different pathway where transport CO2 … achieve a more secure and sustainable transport future. If governments implement strong policies to achieve this scenario …, transport can play its role and dramatically reduce CO2 emissions by 2050. …
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models ignore the individual and humane factors as the primary structure of the city. Nowadays, the public transport systems … Urban Transport Program (NUTP) in Colombia is focused in developing public transport systems as the central element of urban … mobility. A mass transport that is fast, comfortable, clean and safe will increase urban productivity and improve the quality …
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Responding to a Gleneagles G8 Summit request, this book shows how changes in energy efficiency, economic structure, income, prices and fuel mix have affected recent trends in energy use and CO2 emissions in IEA countries. The results are a “wake-up call” for us all. Since 1990, the rate of...
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We consider commuting in a congested urban area. While an efficient time-varying toll may eliminate queuing, a toll may not be politically feasible. We study the benefit of a substitute: a parking fee at the workplace. An optimal time-varying parking fee is charged at zero rate when there is...
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This paper presents a model of urban traffic congestion that allows for hypercongestion. Hypercongestion has … fundamental importance for the costs of congestion and the effect of policies such as road pricing, transit provision and traffic …
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The number of road traffic casualties is still very lofty and the trend shows a boost with each passing day. The road … traffic accidents involve fatalities due to which economic resources are damaged and the productivity of the economy is … correspondingly impaired. Costs resulting from traffic accidents represent the largest single part of the overall cost of traffic to …
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The number of road traffic casualties is still very lofty and the trend shows a boost with each passing day. The road … traffic accidents involve fatalities due to which economic resources are damaged and the productivity of the economy is … correspondingly impaired. Costs resulting from traffic accidents represent the largest single part of the overall cost of traffic to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114075
This study aims to show that for pro growth industrialization, contemporary industrial policy needs to emphasis on improvement of energy production and of the quality of human capital with application on Central Africa sub region. After a literature review on industrial policy concept, we have...
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