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Achieving low carbon freight transport through green corridor development in Asia and the Pacific
Get PDFThe policy brief Achieving Low Carbon Freight Transport through Green Corridor Development in Asia and the Pacific was developed following the Regional Cooperation Mechanism on Low Carbon Transport: Creation of Green Transport Corridors in Asia and the Pacific regional meeting (https://www.unescap.org/events/2024/regional-cooperation-mechanism-low-carbon-transport-creation-green-transport-corridors). The development and implementation of green freight transport policies have been identified as an important strategy for decarbonizing the transport sector. However, this is a difficult challenge for the region due to the lack of regulations and fragmentation of stakeholders in many countries. Transport corridors that are green, integrated, and efficient will also need to take into account the multimodal nature of supply chains, including land and maritime transport. Decarbonizing freight transport will require a multi-faceted approach, including developing green multimodal corridors, adopting cleaner technologies, and promoting green freight practices. This policy brief aims to contribute to this effort by exploring the strategic pathways for establishing green multimodal corridors in the Asia-Pacific. It will examine the region's current state of freight transport, identify opportunities for decarbonization, and propose concrete strategies for achieving a sustainable and resilient freight transport system.Table of Contents
Summary.....................................................................................................................................................6
Abbreviations.............................................................................................................................................7
I. Introduction............................................................................................................................................8
II. Asia's Freight Transport: Key Trends & Developments....................................................................10
III. Freight Decarbonization Policies and Green Transport Corridors.................................................13
IV. Case Studies and Green Transport Corridor Initiatives...................................................................18
A. Trans-European Transport Network.........................................................................................18
B. Northern Corridor Green Freight Strategy...............................................................................18
C. National Zero-Emission Freight Corridor Strategy..................................................................19
D. ZEVWISE Global Green Corridors Initiative...........................................................................19
E. Getting to Zero Coalition...........................................................................................................20
V. Regional Cooperation Mechanism on Low Carbon Transport: Creation of Green Transport
Corridors in Asia and the Pacific ............................................................................................................21
A. Infrastructure Deficiencies........................................................................................................22
B. Modal Imbalance........................................................................................................................22
C. Environmental and Climate Change Impacts...........................................................................22
D. Fragmented Industry Structure .................................................................................................22
E. Urban Freight Challenges..........................................................................................................22
F. Additional Barriers.....................................................................................................................22
VI. Policy Insights and Recommendations.............................................................................................24
A. Policy and Regulatory Frameworks..........................................................................................24
B. Modal Shift and Efficiency ........................................................................................................24
C. Technology and Innovation ......................................................................................................24
D. Infrastructure and Resilience ....................................................................................................25
E. Collaboration and Capacity Building ........................................................................................25
VII. Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................26
References ................................................................................................................................................27
Annex .......................................................................................................................................................2
Improving Fuel Efficiency and Reducing Carbon Emissions from Buses in India
Get PDFThere is a growing public transport crisis in India, with a tremendous increase in the number of private vehicles. Many public bus corporations are operating with net financial losses and rely on government subsidies to keep operations going; therefore, investment in new buses and technology upgrades is rare. Of the various expenditures that bus corporations incur, fuel costs account for 30 percent. There is a strong need to improve fuel efficiency of buses to not only improve the financial viability of the bus companies but also to reduce their environmental and related health impacts. This study analyzes data on more than 500 buses from 3 leading bus corporations in India and identifies measures that can be implemented to improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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