The workshop series “The Future of Mobility” provides a forum for discussing key sustainability issues in transportation and current policy strategies to address them. In particular, much emphasis is placed on the adoption of fuel-efficient and alternative-fuel vehicles for road transportation, innovation in fuel and vehicle technology mixes and the shift from road to other modes of transportation.
Drivers of Transportation Fuel Demand: Fuel-efficient mobility from the consumer’s perspective
Consumer adoption of fuel-efficient vehicles is a crucial step in improving energy utilization and reducing emissions from the personal transportation sector. To promote adoption, multiple supply- and demand-side policies such as fuel economy standards, zero-emission vehicle mandate, renewable fuel standard, low carbon fuel standard, ethanol subsidies, financial and non-financial incentives, have been employed. For these […]