A Study on Choice Behavior Model of Transportation in Low Carbon City with Economical Utility Analysis.

• Main Authors: Chia-lin Chang, 張嘉麟
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33751222260960021186

碩士 === 逢甲大學 === 企業管理所 === 99 === After the industrial revolution in 1870, the economy of globe starts to develop rapidly, population explores continually so that it products highly industrialized environment. Therefore, it causes the emission of greenhouse gas, the depletion of ozonosphere, even result in the phenomenon of global warming. According to the investigation of International Energy Agency (2010), Taiwan is only occupied the third thousand population of the world, but the percentage of carbon emissions of the globe is 1, and one person of Taiwanese average products 11.1 metric tons of carbon, so the ranking of carbon emissions is 18th in the world. Furthermore, based on the Bureau of Energy, Ministry of Economic Affairs, the highest of average carbon emissions of a person is industry (48.1%), the second is service industry (14.3%), and the third is transportation department (13.7%). Environmental Protection Administration Executive Yuan, R.O.C also indicates that Taiwanese product the highest of carbon emissions is transportation (58%), and the second is electric power and fuel gas. Facing the negative impact from the global warming, every country of the world starts to try its best to reduce carbon emissions. According to Rousse (2008), it’s useful to reduce carbon emissions by citizens’ participation, and then can alleviate global warming. The result of Kim and Koo’s research (2010) said that people will have more will to participate the activity of carbon emissions from government’s promotion. For example, the policy of carbon allowance will stimulate people to save energy. Hence, the conclusion from the above researches that the vehicle of people using daily is the one of main sources to produce greenhouse gas. If the government wants to reduce carbon emissions, it should encourage whole citizens to participate the activity of energy saving and carbon reduction by popularizing policy. This study builds economic utility function by time and cost, and uses differential evolution to proceed the analysis of simulated situation, and then compares the difference between different simulated situations to get optimal solution. Therefore, the transport behavior of everyone’s daily commuting will follow this solution, and this transportation way can have both advantages of maximal utility, energy saving and carbon reduction. Moreover, in order to alleviate global warming, this study also analyzes the best transportation way to advise some policies and encourage whole citizens to participate the activity of energy saving and carbon reduction. It’s convinced that this result of study for energy saving and carbon reduction’s future development will be a valuable reference.