Introduction
The transportation industry is responsible for __ of GHG emissions and __ of CO2 emissions
What is 15% and 23%
What are walking, biking, and public transportation?
The main method used in this study
What is the quantiles via moments method
Green transportation helps _____ ecological footprints and _____ environmental safety
What are reduce and ensure
One person in the class that has a car here (In Kalamazoo)
Who are Melissa, Jakob, Colton, Nikhil and possibly more
The 10 transition economies countries studied in the paper?
What are China, US, Germany, UK, France, Japan, India, South Korea, Brazil, Spain
The type of transportation does green transportation systems promote reduction in
What are private automobiles
The quantiles via moments method
Captures cross sectional heterogeneity and over time variations among sample units
The relationship between urbanization and ecological degradation
What is urbanization increases ecological degradation
The relationship between institutional quality and ecological footprints
What is institutional quality is conducive to deterring ecological footprints. Strong structure promotes environmental policies and weak structure can allow for company violations and hinders wealth generation in developing economies
A transition economy
Transitions from centrally planned to market based economies
The main factor in country specific increases in ecological footprints
What is population size
Two tests (other than the main method) used in this study
What are cross-sectional dependency test, panel root-unit test, slope homogeneity test, panel causality test
The correlation between green transportation and ecological footprint
What is Negative? Proves that green transportation contributes to reducing environmental degradation proxied by ecological footprints
The reason for the effect of urbanization on environmental quality
What is rural migration to urban centers
Three benefits of green transportation
1)Reduce GHG emissions
2)promote sustainable development
3)reduce air pollution
4)enhance energy security
5)create new jobs/stimulate economic growth while reducing climate change costs
Some of the low-emission vehicles included in green transportation
What are duel-fuel, natural gas, electric, hydrogen fuel cell, and solar vehicles
The primary independent variable and what is consists of
What is green transportation that consists of investments and portion of infrastructural development for electric and low carbon vehicles?
The percentage of emissions from transportation that comes from road transportation and the percentage of road transportation fueled by oil
What are 75% and 90%
Three conclusions of the study
See paper
Two of this studies’ motivations
What are…
1)Scarcity of existing literature
2)concern about correlation between transportation and emissions
3)Studies consider transportation as the demand side determinant of the ecological balance
4)Investigate how green transportation affects top 10 transition economies’ ecological footprints
All of the listed benefits of green transportation systems for the efficient use of roads
What are reductions is traffic jams, conserving energy, lessening emissions, improving air quality, and lessening green house effect
All of the independent variables (other than the primary one) and the dependent variable
What are…
Independent: innovation, renewable energy, domestic investment, urbanization, and institutional quality
Dependent: Environmental degradation proxied by ecological footprints
One of the propositions that the findings confirms
What is
1)transport infrastructure promotes inclusive growth by creating job opportunities, factors mobility and accessibility to economic facilities
or
2) recent trends in energy transition economies is to secure energy resources with energy efficient technology
The policy recommendations (briefly)
See paper