Article ID: | iaor20141338 |
Volume: | 59 |
Issue: | 12 |
Start Page Number: | 85 |
End Page Number: | 107 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2013 |
Journal: | Transportation Research Part E |
Authors: | Leachman Robert C, Guerrero Sebastian E, Madanat Samer M |
Keywords: | behaviour |
In response to the growing Climate Change problem, governments around the world are seeking to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of trucking. The Trucking Sector Optimization (TSO) model is introduced as a tool for studying the decisions that shippers and carriers make throughout time (focusing on investments in Fuel Saving Technologies), and for evaluating their impact on life‐cycle GHG emissions. A case study of fuel taxation in California is used to highlight the importance of (1) modeling the trucking sector comprehensively, (2) modeling the dynamics of the stock of vehicles, and (3) modeling different sources of emissions.