Effective public policies for EV-dissemination

A Plug for Effective EV Rates

Electric vehicles (EVs) provide a tremendous opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and save money at the same time. In the United States today, EVs generally result in substantially fewer GHG emissions compared to gasoline-powered internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. EVs are also typically cheaper to operate than ICEs. A recent Synapse analysis found that replacing ICEs wit...

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Effective EV Population Initialization Technique for Genetic Algorithm

In traditional Genetic Algorithm, random population seeding technique is simple and efficient however the population may contain poor quality individuals which take long time to converge optimal solution. This motivates to design a population initialization technique with the features of randomness, individual diversity and good quality. In this paper, an initial work has been carried out to de...

Public Policies for Lead Recycling

Policies that encourage recycling may be used to reduce environmental costs from waste disposal when direct restrictions on disposal are difficult to enforce. Four recycling policies have been advanced: (i) taxes on the use of virgin materials; (ii) deposit/refund programs; (iii) subsidies to recycled material production; and (iv) recycled content standards. This study analyzes the structure of...

Dissemination of Reconfiguration Policies on Mesh Networks

Component-based platforms are widely used to develop and deploy distributed pervasive system that exhibit a high degree of dynamicity, concurrency, distribution, heterogeneity, and volatility. This paper deals with the problem of ensuring safe yet efficient dynamic adaptation in a distributed and volatile environment. Most current platforms provide capabilities for dynamic local adaptation to a...