Taxi owners' buying preferences of hybrid-electric vehicles and their implications for emissions in New York City

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1064-1073

  Gao, H Oliver ^a   Kitirattragarn, Vincent ^b  

^a School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

^b Department of Citywide Administrative Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Emission reduction; Hybrid electric vehicle; Logistic regression; NYC taxi fleet

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EMISSION CONTROL; FLEET OPERATIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; NITROGEN OXIDES; TANTALUM COMPOUNDS; TAXICABS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; EMISSION REDUCTION; GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION; HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLES (HEVS); KAPLAN-MEIER SURVIVAL CURVES; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELING; NITROGEN OXIDE EMISSIONS; NYC TAXI FLEET;

HYBRID VEHICLES;

CARBON EMISSION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESTIMATION METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTION POLICY; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TAXI TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC EMISSION; WEIBULL THEORY;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 49349098190     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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