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Transportation Research Procedia 3 ( 2014 ) 770 – 779
17th Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Transportation, EWGT2014, 2-4 July 2014,
Sevilla, Spain
Emissions cap-and-trade approaches for managing urban road
mobility
E. Anguloa, . Espinosa-Arandaa, R. García-Ródenasa*, . López Garcíaa
aCollege puter Science - Mathematics Dept., University of Castilla-La Mancha,
Paseo de la Universidad 4, 13071, Ciudad Real (Spain)
Abstract
This paper develops a methodology to analyse the impact of emission taxes for private vehicles for controlling and reducing
atmospheric pollution. The main feature of the proposed approach is the integration of emissions from individual emitters
(private vehicles) in Emissions Trading Markets designed for macro-emitters. The presented approach consists of two
hierarchical levels. At upper level the emissions trading for macro-emitters (cities or consortium of cities) is considered. In this
work three emission trading schemes are proposed and studied: i) Fixed emission rights per city, ii) Auction market for the
emissions, which tries to reach the environmental objectives at the minimum cost, and iii) Emissions cap-and-trade scheme.
These trades allow the system to provide an efficient scheme in a cost-efficiency sense and equity among regulated cities. At
lower lev