Essays on the effectiveness of environmental and urban transportation policies
department or school: Business, Sauder School of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Chen, Cheng
issued: 2019-08-14T16:23:04Z
issued: 2019
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This dissertation is a collection of three essays that study the efficiency of policies targeting environmental and urban transportation issues. The first essay investigates a government incentive that subsidizes the purchase of electric vehicles(EVs) and asks a question of whether subsidizing public charging facility would be more cost-effective. It estimates a discrete choice model of EVs which relies on both EV characteristics and individual demographic information, using micro-level data from the California Clean Vehicle Rebate Program. Results show: (1) EVs with smaller battery capacity are more reliant on the public charging network; (2) consumers with higher income are less price sensitive. Such results support subsidizing more to public charging facility and reducing the EV purchase subsidy to the more affluent consumers. The second essay builds on the literature of road congestion and addresses the importance of schedule delay cost occurred due to uncertain traffic time. We propose the notion of a "reliability standard" that commuters use to calculate their schedule time --- the buffer time added to a commute so as to ensure being at work on time most of the time. With this tool, we conduct an extensive simulation study to gain further insights into the role of commuter composition, time cost differences, and the degree of inflexibility on optimal road tolls. While the cost of commuting time reliability is economically important, we find that the difference between a full-information road toll and a limited-information road toll is smaller than one would expect. Our study points to how future stated preference studies can be designed to elicit more meaningful information that identifies commuter heterogeneity, and in turn will lead to better designs for mobility pricing. The third essay examines the relationship between firms' voluntary disclosure in environmental performance information and their level of institutional ownership. Empirical results indicate…
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note: Essays on the Effectiveness of Environmentaland Urban Transportation PoliciesbyCheng ChenB.A., Nanjing University, 2011M.Sc., University of Waterloo, 2013A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENTOF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OFDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHYinTHE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES(Business Administration)THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA(Vancouver)August 2019© Cheng Chen, 2019The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Post-doctoral Studies for acceptance, the thesis entitled:Essays on the Effectiveness of Environmentaland Urban Transportation Policiessubmitted by Cheng Chen in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHI-LOSOPHY in Business Administration.Examining Committee:Werner AntweilerCo-supervisorSanghoon LeeCo-supervisorRobin LindseyUniversity ExaminerKevin MilliganUniversity ExaminerAdditional Supervisory Committee Members:Sumeet GulatiSupervisory Committee MemberiiAbstractThis dissertation is a collection of three essays that study the efficiency of policies targeting environmentaland urban transportation issues.The first essay investigates a government incentive that subsidizes the purchase of electric vehicles(EVs)and asks a question of whether subsidizing public charging facility would be more cost-effective. It esti-mates a discrete choice model of EVs which relies on both EV characteristics and individual demographicinformation, using micro-level data from the California Clean Vehicle Rebate Program. Results show: (1)EVs with smaller battery capacity are more reliant on the public charging network; (2) consumers withhigher income are less price sensitive. Such results support subsidizing more to public charging facility andreducing the EV purchase subsidy to the more affluent consumers.The second essay builds on the literature of road congestion and addresses the importance of scheduledelay cost occurred due to uncertain traffic time. We propose t…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2019-09
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0380426
language: eng
degree discipline: Business Administration - Strategy and Business Economics
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/71288