Transportation and the environment in developing countries

S Li, J Xing, L Yang, F Zhang - Annual Review of Resource …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
In urban areas around the world, increasing motorization and growing travel demand make
the urban transportation sector an ever-greater contributor to local air pollution and …

Electric vehicle adoption in license plate-controlled big cities: Evidence from Beijing

X Zhang, X Bai, H Zhong - Journal of cleaner production, 2018 - Elsevier
From 2015 to 2017, under the same nationally available subsidy, license plate-controlled
big cities accounted for 49.3%–65.0% of electric vehicle (EV) adoption in China. This …

The impact of different incentive policies on new energy vehicle demand in China's gigantic cities

Y Xian, Q Wang, W Fan, Y Da, JL Fan - Energy Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
License plate control and preferential policies are both significant for promoting New Energy
Vehicles (NEVs) in China, and it is important to be aware of the impact of different policies …

Environmental and welfare effects of vehicle purchase tax: Evidence from China

Q Ji, C Wang, Y Fan - Energy Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
We investigate how an increase in the rate of purchase tax for internal combustion engine
vehicles (ICEVs) in China affects sales of ICEVs and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) …

Efficiency and equity impacts of urban transportation policies with equilibrium sorting

PJ Barwick, S Li, A Waxman, J Wu… - American Economic …, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
We estimate an equilibrium sorting model of housing location and commuting mode choice
with endogenous traffic congestion to evaluate urban transportation policies. Leveraging …

Subsidy phase-out and consumer demand dynamics: Evidence from the battery electric vehicle market in China

Y Hu, H Yin, L Zhao - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
This article quantifies the impact of the battery electric vehicle subsidy program in China. We
build a structural model of dynamic demand and Bertrand Nash supply to study price …

Welfare analysis of government subsidy programs for fuel-efficient vehicles and new energy vehicles in China

Z Yang, M Tang - Environmental and Resource Economics, 2019 - Springer
To address energy security and environmental problems, the Chinese government has
issued various subsidy programs for fuel-efficient vehicles and new energy vehicles (NEVs) …

Studies of the effectiveness of transport sector interventions in low‐and middle‐income countries: An evidence and gap map

SK Malhotra, H White, NAO Dela Cruz… - Campbell systematic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background There are great disparities in the quantity and quality of infrastructure.
European countries such as Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, and the UK have close to 200 …

Measuring policy leakage of Beijing's car ownership restriction

Y Zheng, J Moody, S Wang, J Zhao - … Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2021 - Elsevier
In response to severe traffic congestion and air pollution, Beijing introduced a car ownership
restriction policy to curb growth in the number of private cars in the city. However, Beijing …

Market equilibrium and welfare effects of a fuel tax in China: The impact of consumers' response through driving patterns

J Tan, J Xiao, X Zhou - Journal of Environmental Economics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
We investigate the market equilibrium and welfare effects of a fuel tax in China relative to an
alternative policy instrument that rations the number of new automobile sales through …