Applying engineering and fleet detail to represent passenger vehicle transport in a computable general equilibrium model

Economic Modelling

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 295-305

  Karplus, Valerie J ^a   Paltsev, Sergey ^a   Babiker, Mustafa ^a   Reilly, John M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative fuel vehicles; CGE model; Energy efficiency; Transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867622265     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2012.08.019     Document Type: Article

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