This project aims at (1) Documenting the main urban transportation challenges in China, public policies in this field, and evaluating the effectiveness of these policies; (2) Improving the assessment

The overall objective of the study is to provide the value of time estimates for automobile users on a congested road using a stated preference survey. The purpose of this study is to obtain the

In this project we set out to find data that policymakers need to decide whether to retain and replicate and refine their driving restriction programs: reliable estimates of the costs these programs

This study aims to promote cooperation in the maintenance of irrigation canals in vast rural areas of north-west China. Due to the extremely limited precipitation and the depletion of underground

The objectives of this field study are: (1) to implement a set of experiments to investigate the effect of the one-child policy on; (2) to collect data of peoples’ back-ground and in particular if

Beijing has notoriously severe air pollution and traffic congestion problems. Like many mega-cities in developing countries, it seeks to mitigate these problems by restricting vehicles from being

RFF’s Center for Energy Economics and Policy (CEEP) has partnered with institutions in China to create a new collaboration dedicated to improving energy policy in China: the Consortium for Energy

Project Progress Report It is now well known that China has become the biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases and the biggest coal using country. Under the pressure of rising carbon emissions, local

This research project will experimentally investigate the actual consequences of the Maskin auction and the other two types of auctions, with both sealed-bid and dynamic-bid design, in the context of

As an international metropolitan area undergoing rapid development, Beijing is facing a sharp rise in the volume ofmotor vehicles andmobility,which has become the major contributor to the air