Total-factor carbon emission performance of the Chinese transportation industry: A bootstrapped non-radial Malmquist index analysis

N Zhang, P Zhou, CC Kung - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a non-radial Malmquist CO 2 emission performance index (NMCPI) for
measuring dynamic changes in total-factor CO 2 emission performance over time. This index …

Dynamic total factor carbon emissions performance changes in the Chinese transportation industry

N Zhang, X Wei - Applied Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
This study examines and decomposes dynamic changes in total factor carbon emissions
performance within the transportation sector in China, incorporating the impact of regional …

A performance evaluation of the energy, environmental, and economic efficiency and productivity in China: An application of global data envelopment analysis

Z Wang, C Feng - Applied Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
The current mode of economic development in China is typified by high growth, high energy
consumption, and high pollution characteristics and this has caused great stress on both …

China's regional sustainability and diversified resource allocation: DEA environmental assessment on economic development and air pollution

T Sueyoshi, Y Yuan - Energy Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
Environmental protection, including the prevention of air pollution and health hazard
materials such as PM2. 5 and PM10, is now a very serious policy issue in China after …

Energy efficiency of selected OECD countries: A slacks based model with undesirable outputs

N Apergis, GC Aye, CP Barros, R Gupta, P Wanke - Energy Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents an efficiency assessment of selected OECD countries using a Slacks
Based Model with undesirable or bad outputs (SBM-Undesirable). In this research, SBM …

Measurement and decomposition of energy-saving and emissions reduction performance in Chinese cities

Q Wang, B Su, J Sun, P Zhou, D Zhou - Applied Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
Taking into account the heterogeneity of production technologies across Chinese cities, we
adopted a meta-frontier function and a non-radial directional distance function to construct …

Evaluating energy efficiency for airlines: An application of VFB-DEA

Q Cui, Y Li - Journal of Air Transport Management, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, the energy efficiency of airlines has been studied with number of employees,
capital stock and tons of aviation kerosene as the inputs and Revenue Ton Kilometers …

Sources of production inefficiency and productivity growth in China: A global data envelopment analysis

Z Wang, C Feng - Energy Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
The current mode of production in China is extensive and inefficient and has caused great
stress on both resources and the environment. This paper focuses on analyzing the sources …

An empirical study on the influencing factors of transportation carbon efficiency: Evidences from fifteen countries

Q Cui, Y Li - Applied Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, transportation carbon efficiency is redefined, and its inputs and outputs are
obtained from a literature review. Carbon, capital and labor are selected as the inputs, and …

Thermodynamic optimization opportunities for the recovery and utilization of residual energy and heat in China's iron and steel industry: A case study

L Chen, B Yang, X Shen, Z Xie, F Sun - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Analyses and optimizations of material flows and energy flows in iron and steel industry in
the world are introduced in this paper. It is found that the recovery and utilization of residual …