Laurent Franckx

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What do we know about the costs of synthetic fuels in road transport?

From 2035 on, besides fully electric cars, the EU will also allow the putting on the market of cars powered by synthetic fuels/e-fuels. Do you know an up-to-date, reliable independent estimate of...

30 March 2023 9,186 2 View

What do we know about the behavioural reactions to the announcement of forthcoming low emission zones/diesel bans/ICE bans?

So I not referring to ex post adaptation, but to what happens between the time when the policy was announced and/ the time it entered into force. How quickly did such announcements affect fleet...

29 July 2021 3,215 0 View

What are the most recent insights on life time maintenance costs of different car powertrains?

For the comparison of life cycle costs of different car powertrains, it is important to include maintenance costs, especially as the life cycle maintenance costs of electric cars are expected to...

21 May 2021 6,151 3 View

Which paper demonstrated the equivalence between nested logit models and nested CES utility function?

Anderson, de Palma & Thisse have demonstrated the equivalence between a demand function derived from a CES direct utility function and a discrete-continuous logit model. I am pretty sure I...

23 October 2020 2,352 6 View

Is there recent literature on the local pollution impact of self driving cars?

I have a question about the local pollution impact of automated cars. The possible energy impacts are well understood, I think, even if the net effects are very uncertain: automated cars could...

03 September 2020 5,925 2 View

Is there recent work on the variable component of car depreciation?

The depreciation of a car is usually the combination of two factors: on the one hand, the car loses value with age, independent of usage; on the other hand, for any given age, it loses additional...

06 February 2020 3,194 2 View

What are good introductions to agent based models in transport?

I am looking for an accessible, but non-trivial introduction to agent based models in transportation, preferably with exercises and assigmnets. Of course, you can find a lot of information on...

22 November 2018 9,060 4 View

Is anyone working on modelling of passenger drones and their impact on mobility and externalities?

Passenger drones are sometimes heralded as the new miracle solution to traffic congestion. But one can just as well argue that, together with other automated transport technologies, they will just...

11 October 2017 4,824 4 View

What is the relevant value of travel time for modal choice modelling?

In "Values of travel time in Europe: Review and meta-analysis" Wardman, Chintakayala and de Jong (2016) distinguish between mode used and mode valued. Some thoughts/questions on this. As the...

01 January 1970 3,378 2 View