Road speed limit matters – Are politicians doing the right thing?

Albornoz, Vicente Alcaraz Carrillo de; Millán, Juan Molina; Lara-Galera, Antonio; Muñoz-Medina, Belén

doi:10.1016/j.seps.2021.101106

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“…Health and environment are multifaceted facets of each economy and have received great attention globally in recent days, especially from environmental and health scholars and at international summits. Thus, several factors affect health and environment-oriented transport (transport–carbon intensity), particularly transport and economic (de Albornoz et al, 2022 ; Heidari et al, 2022 ; Kumar & Dua, 2022 ; Wan et al, 2022 ). More precisely, because of drastic changes in transportation and economic structure, the public’s health and environment are substantially deteriorating.…”

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Effects of transport–carbon intensity, transportation, and economic complexity on environmental and health expenditures

Hussain,

Marcel,

Majeed

et al. 2023

Environ Dev Sustain

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Health and the environment are complex components of the countries, influenced by several factors, especially transport, and economics. Thus, this paper assesses the role of transportation and economic complexity in the environment and public health for the Organization for Economic Co-operation Development (OECD) countries from 2001 to 2020. This study also focuses on the relationship between transport and economic complexity with environmental and healthcare expenditures. Precisely, transport and economic activities stimulate healthcare expenditures through multiple channels. The current study employs the STIRPAT model to investigate the association with transportation, economic complexity, transport–carbon intensity, and healthcare expenditure. Besides, the current research confirms the plausible cross-sectional dependency across countries, and it adopts a second-generation technique. Analytical findings suggest that transportation-carbon intensity is positively and significantly associated with healthcare expenditures. Healthcare and transport–household expenditures increase transport–carbon intensity (TCI) by 75% and 45%, respectively, in the long run. In the contrast, TCI and transport–household expenditures have also a remarkable impact on healthcare expenditures and are estimated approximately 95% in the long run. Moreover, economic growth also upsurges TCI and healthcare expenditures through multiple economic activities. Besides, transport–household expenditures (THE) drastically impact transport–carbon intensity and healthcare expenditures (HEX) through passenger traffic (PTF). Diagnostic upshots unveil that the joint effect of THE and PTF increases TCI and HEX by 4 and 3%, respectively. Finally, findings recommend some policy implications and future research directions for the countries based on empirical outcomes. Countries should regulate economic activities to reduce transport carbon emissions.

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Effects of transport–carbon intensity, transportation, and economic complexity on environmental and health expenditures

Hussain,

Marcel,

Majeed

et al. 2023

Environ Dev Sustain

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Safety by simulation: theorizing the future of robot regulation

Viljanen

2023

AI & Soc

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Mobility robots may soon be among us, triggering a need for safety regulation. Robot safety regulation, however, remains underexplored, with only a few articles analyzing what regulatory approaches could be feasible. This article offers an account of the available regulatory strategies and attempts to theorize the effects of simulation-based safety regulation. The article first discusses the distinctive features of mobility robots as regulatory targets and argues that emergent behavior constitutes the key regulatory concern in designing robot safety regulation regimes. In contrast to many accounts, the article posits that emergent behavior dynamics do not arise from robot autonomy, learning capability, or code unexplainability. Instead, they emerge from the complexity of robot technological constitutions coupled with near-infinite environmental variability and non-linear performance dynamics of the machine learning components. Second, the article reviews rules-based and performance-based regulation and argues that both will fail adequately constrain emergent robot behaviors. The article claims that controlling mobility robots requires a simulation-based regulatory approach. Simulation-based regulation is a novelty with significant theoretical and practical implications. The article argues that the approach signifies a radical break in regulatory forms of knowledge and temporalities. Simulations enact virtual futures to create a new regulatory knowledge type. Practically, the novel safety knowledge type may destabilize the existing conceptual space of safety politics and liability allocation patterns.

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