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On-road vehicle emissions remote sensing
Vehicle remote sensing involves scanning exhaust emissions using equipment positioned roadside. Potential aims include monitoring effectiveness of emission standards, cross-checking I/M programs, and identifying high emitters.
Evaluating air carrier fuel efficiency and CO2 emissions in the U.S. airline industry
Employs ratio-based, deterministic, and stochastic frontier approaches to assess the fuel efficiency of fifteen large jet operators in the United States.
Alternative octane enhancers for 10 ppm sulfur gasoline in China
Reports results of a study to characterize octane production in China, quantify the effects on fuel octane of proposed new limits on the use of manganese in fuels, identify alternatives, and quantify costs.
Travelcard Nederland BV datasource document: Fuel consumption of Dutch passengers cars in business use 2004-2012
Travelcard Nederland BV offers a fuel card system that can be used at any gas station in the Netherlands and at more than 33,000 fuel stops across Europe. About 200,000 vehicles, out of the 8 million total in the Netherlands, regularly fill up with petrol or diesel using Travelcard. For this study, detailed fuel consumption […]
Barriers to adoption of fuel-efficiency technologies in the North American on-road freight sector
Analysis of market barriers to the widespread adoption of off-the-shelf efficiency technologies, including limited availability, lack of credible information about benefits, and uncertainty about the length of payback period.
Electric vehicle grid integration in the U.S., Europe, and China
Examines key drivers of EV adoption, with an emphasis on vehicle-charging scenarios and infrastructure and an eye toward identifying options that can maximize benefits from greater EV use to both consumers and the grid.
Analyzing the Transition to Electric Drive in California
Reports results of an exercise in modeling the transition to electric drive vehicles, including measuring the costs and benefits, quantifying the transition barriers and network external benefits, and estimating the effects of public policies on the transition process.
Effects of possible changes in crude oil slate on U.S. refining sector CO2 emissions
Analysis indicates that that the carbon intensity of the U.S. refining sector is sensitive to both the crude oils input to refineries and the product slate output.
An economic analysis of maximum take-off weight (MTOW) reductions under an ICAO CO2 standard
Assesses how an MTOW constraint, which would lead to a lower nominal payload-range capability for affected aircraft, would influence the economic value of several representative aircraft types.
International Alignment of Fuel Efficiency Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles
An analysis of the prospects for improving alignment of various HDV efficiency programs worldwide, with the aim of accelerating technology development and promoting technology adoption in the global market.