An empirical study on the influencing factors of transportation carbon efficiency: Evidences from fifteen countries

作者：Cui, Qiang^*; Li, Ye

来源：Applied Energy, 2015, 141: 209-217.

DOI：10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.12.040

• Transportation carbon efficiency
• Virtual frontier DEA
• Evaluation
• Influencing factors

In this paper, transportation carbon efficiency is redefined, and its inputs and outputs are obtained from a literature review. Carbon, capital and labor are selected as the inputs, and passenger turnover volume and freight turnover volume are defined as the outputs. A new model, a virtual frontier DEA (virtual frontier Data Envelopment Analysis), is applied to evaluate transportation carbon efficiencies, and cases from 15 countries during the period of 2003-2010 are analyzed to verify the results. Next, a Tobit regression model is applied to identify the important influencing factors of transportation carbon efficiency. The results indicate that compared to the technology factor and management factor, the influencing degree of a structure factor is relatively small.

• 出版日期2015-3-1
• 单位大连理工大学; 大连海事大学