Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability

By Daniel Sperling, T. Turrentine, H. Segale. 2008

226 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/8fa738caeacd070eafe8828cbfebff1f9ef0567d

Citations in the corpus

• Linking urban transport and land use in developing countries (2013, unknown): “Most observers agree that rapid motorization is mostly driven by rising incomes (Ingram and Liu 1999; Sperling and Gordon 2009).”
• The business model dilemma of technology shifts (2014, unknown): “The engines were originally fueled with biofuel, but with the tripling of American oil production and Fordistic mass-production, the modern transportation system based on oil became dominant in the early 1920s (Sperling and Gordon, 2009).”
• Autonomous Vehicles: Developing a Public Health Research Agenda to Frame the Future of Transportation Policy (2017, unknown): “With almost one billion vehicles on the planet, a number that is expected to double in the next decade (Sperling and Gordon, 2009), the promise of automation could rapidly prove ubiquitous in select parts of the world, with far-reaching social, economic, and environmental ramifications from these “s”
• How should barriers to alternative fuels and vehicles be classified and potential policies to promote innovative technologies be evaluated (2012, unknown): “Globally, there are about 1 billion vehicles in use, with projections expected to reach 2 billion by 2030 (Sperling and Gordon, 2009).”
• Demand-pull and technology-push public support for eco-innovation: The case of the biofuels sector (2015, unknown): “Brazil is considered to be the biofuel industry leader and serves as a policy model for other countries since its sugarcane ethanol is the most successful alternative fuel to date (Sperling and Gordon, 2009).”
• VTrack: accurate, energy-aware road traffic delay estimation using mobile phones (2009, unknown): “…Mobile Phones Arvind Thiagarajan, Lenin Ravindranath, Katrina LaCurts, Sivan Toledo Jakob Eriksson Samuel Madden, Hari Balakrishnan Tel-Aviv University U. Illinois Chicago MIT CSAIL stoledo@tau.ac.il jakob@cs.uic.edu {arvindt,lenin,katrina,madden,hari}@csail.mit.edu Abstract Traf.c delays and…”
• Climate change and the slow reorientation of the American car industry (1979–2012): An application and extension of the Dialectic Issue LifeCycle (DILC) model (2015, unknown): “PNGV had an unintended consequence, because foreign automakers perceived it as a serious technology development programme (Sperling and Gordon, 2009).”
• From Policy Measures to Policy Packages (2013, unknown): “…same systems also generate and/or compound a myriad of social, environmental and economic problems—including, but by no means limited to: social exclusion, obesity, traffic congestion, noise pollution and anthropogenic climate change (Banister, 2005; Docherty & Shaw, 2003; Sperling & Gordon, 2009).”