The effects of license plate-based driving restrictions on air quality: Theory and empirical evidence

Wei, Zhang; Lawell, C.-Y. Cynthia Lin; Umanskaya, Victoria I.

doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2016.12.002

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“…On the contrary, gasoline consumption, vehicle ownership, and carbon monoxide tended to slightly increase when these drastic restrictions were implemented (Bonilla, 2016). • In fact, some research works have found that the use of the license plate-based driving restriction in Bogota has encouraged the purchase of a second car, which even may increase air pollution above previous levels (Zhang et al, 2017). • Despite the pico y placa ambiental has proven to be effective and one of the most successful strategies applied to the most polluting diesel vehicles (public transport and cargo), its scope of application of small and this constraint their impacts at the city level.…”

Section: Impacts Derived From These Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transport Challenges in Latin American Cities: Lessons Learnt from Policy Experiences

Vassallo¹,

Bueno²,

Rivas³

2018

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Transport Challenges in Latin American Cities: Lessons Learnt from Policy Experiences

Vassallo¹,

Bueno²,

Rivas³

2018

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“…While several studies have considered the relationship between auto travel and air quality [3,[26][27][28], and the effects of transportation policies such as driving restrictions on air quality [29,30], there have been relatively few empirical studies looking at the effect of public transit on air quality [4].…”

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The Effects of Urban Public Transit Investment on Traffic Congestion and Air Quality

Beaudoin¹,

Lawell²

2017

Urban Transport Systems

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Traffic congestion is ubiquitous across urban roadways, and the adverse health effects accompanying deteriorating air quality are an ongoing concern. Beyond these local effects, transportation is also a major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions and is thus a significant element of the climate change debate. A contentious issue currently confronting transportation analysts and policy-makers is what the effects of public transit investment on traffic congestion and on air quality are and therefore what the appropriate level of public transit investment should be. While public transit receives plenty of political support for its "green" reputation and its contribution to sustainability, there have been relatively few studies examining the ex post-effects of public transit investment on traffic congestion or air quality. In this chapter, we review our theoretical and empirical research on the effects of public transit investment on congestion, the demand for automobile travel, and air quality.

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“…Following Zhang et al (2016), let 4v represent household 's total vehicle miles traveled (VMT) -based on the use of all vehicles in its fleet -on weekday j = 1,...,5, of week w = 1,...,52, in year y (subscripts w and y will henceforth distinguish variables solely when necessary), and vector Similar to the two-day version of the model in the text, letting 4vŽ E represent the expected value of (the daily-per-week version of) 4 E as defined above inclusive of operating an additional vehicle, an ASE household 's expected net infra-marginal benefit from purchasing the additional vehicle in the absence of additional regulation is…”

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“…Davis (2008) also finds an increase in 2 See Cropper et al (2013), Cummings and Walker (2000), Henry and Gordon (2003), Jiang (2009), Cutter and Neidell (2009), Carnovale and Gibson (2013), Wolff (2014), Gallego et al (2013aGallego et al ( , 2013b, and Osakwe (2010) for examples of previous studies addressing this problem. In a more recent study of driving restrictions implemented in Bogota, Colombia, Zhang et al (2016) find that restrictions have differential effects on air pollutants because of the pollutants' heterogeneity in the atmospheric chemistry. 3 Beijing's program is even more restrictive than this.…”

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A note on mitigating the adverse scale effects associated with daily driving restrictions

Caplan

Kim

2017

Envir. Dev. Econ.

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This paper investigates the role of additional regulation in mitigating the ‘adverse scale effect’ associated with daily driving restrictions, which has become a popular regulatory tool used to control episodic air pollution internationally, especially in developing countries. We find that although an annual vehicle registration tax reduces the incentive to purchase additional vehicles among households whose sole purpose for doing so is to ‘cheat’ the restriction (i.e., the ‘adverse scale effect’), it does so with an external cost. The cost occurs because households whose purpose for purchasing an additional vehicle is not to cheat the restriction are given the same disincentive with the tax. We show how simple one- and two-stage lotteries can be used to not only discriminate between cheater and non-cheater households (in particular, to avoid providing a disincentive to the latter type of household), but also to provide an even stronger disincentive to the former.

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The effects of license plate-based driving restrictions on air quality: Theory and empirical evidence

Cited by 107 publications

References 30 publications

Transport Challenges in Latin American Cities: Lessons Learnt from Policy Experiences

Transport Challenges in Latin American Cities: Lessons Learnt from Policy Experiences

The Effects of Urban Public Transit Investment on Traffic Congestion and Air Quality

A note on mitigating the adverse scale effects associated with daily driving restrictions

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