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Sustainable Mobility Policy Analysis Using Hybrid Choice Models: Is It the Right Choice?

  • Gustavo García-Melero,
  • Rubén Sainz-González,
  • Pablo Coto-Millán and
  • Alejandra Valencia-Vásquez

9 March 2021

In recent years, sustainable mobility policy analysis has used Hybrid Choice Models (HCM) by incorporating latent variables in the mode choice models. However, the impact on policy analysis outcomes has not yet been determined with certainty. This pa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Perspectives on Transportation Mode Choice Decisions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,510 Views
28 Pages

An Institutional Theory Framework for Leveraging Large Language Models for Policy Analysis and Intervention Design

  • J. de Curtò,
  • I. de Zarzà,
  • Leandro Sebastián Fervier,
  • Victoria Sanagustín-Fons and
  • Carlos T. Calafate

20 February 2025

This study proposes a comprehensive framework for integrating data-driven approaches into policy analysis and intervention strategies. The methodology is structured around five critical components: data collection, historical analysis, policy impact...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Generative Artificial Intelligence in Smart Societies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
197 Views
17 Pages

Energy Generation Policy Strategies for Low CO2 Emission in Rwanda Using LEAP Model-Based Analysis

  • Emile Niringiyimana,
  • Li Jiqing,
  • Zhang Ping,
  • Wang Kedong and
  • Chen Huiwei

12 October 2026

This article used the Long-range Energy Alternative Planning and scenario-based analysis to investigate Rwanda’s future energy supply, the energy consumption and emitted GHGs from 2023 to 2053. Impacts of various energy policies are analyzed co...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
825 Views
25 Pages

We systematically analyze the evolutionary characteristics of China’s public health policies, focusing on the dynamic changes in policy content, stage-specific differences, and inter-subject collaborative relationships. Based on 137 public heal...

(This article belongs to the Topic Data Science and Intelligent Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
596 Views
28 Pages

8 June 2026

As a core policy tool for promoting green economic transformation and high-quality development, green finance has significantly optimized the allocation of resources for corporate green innovation, thereby inevitably influencing the efficiency of gre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovations in Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Engine of Transformative Economic Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,705 Views
26 Pages

18 December 2018

This research aimed to analyze the influence of the direct and indirect relationships of economic, social, and environmental factors as well as predict their future effects by applying a path analysis of a generalized method of moments model (path an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Natural Resource Economics and Policy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
374 Views
24 Pages

Unpacking Policy–Instrument Mixes: An Exponential Random Graph Model Analysis of China’s Urban Public Safety Policy

  • Ze Wang,
  • Bingyu Han,
  • Meihan Liu,
  • Jialin Liu and ,
  • Dongsheng Han,
  • Xiaotian Guo and
  • Yun Wu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 September 2026

Urban public safety (UPS) governance depends on policy–instrument mixes (PIMs), which combine instruments to address complex and systemically interdependent public safety problems. However, researchers have paid limited attention to their forma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Resilient Futures of Urban Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,921 Views
23 Pages

Policy is an important support for risk society to prevent and resolve crises. Based on the content analysis of the policy text and PMC-Index model, this paper takes texts of 327 public health emergency response policies (PHERP) at the central level...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,371 Views
25 Pages

11 October 2024

This study presents an overlapping generation model to examine the impact of fertility incentive policies on economic growth in China, incorporating endogenous fertility, education, and technological advancement by integrating unified growth theory w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research in Mathematical Economics and Financial Modelling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,108 Views
14 Pages

2 November 2022

Industrial development cannot be separated from policy guidance and support. Scientific evaluation and analysis of wind power industrial policies can promote the sustainable and healthy development of the industry, which has great significance to acc...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,221 Views
16 Pages

1 July 2018

Sustainable development is part and parcel of development policy for Thailand, in order to promote growth along with economic growth, social advancement, and environmental security. Thailand has, therefore, established a national target to reduce CO2...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling and Simulation of Carbon Emission Related Issues)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,250 Views
61 Pages

31 October 2025

This work verifies the interactions between fiscal and monetary policies in Brazil, involving real GDP, the Interest index, Inflation index, real Exchange rate, and actual public debt, using empirical data from January 1998 to December 2018 to calibr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Applied Economics: Trade, Growth and Policy Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
11,715 Views
25 Pages

Exploring the Influence of Thai Government Policy Perceptions on Electric Vehicle Adoption: A Measurement Model and Empirical Analysis

  • Dissakoon Chonsalasin,
  • Thanapong Champahom,
  • Sajjakaj Jomnonkwao,
  • Ampol Karoonsoontawong and ,
  • Norarat Runkawee and
  • Vatanavongs Ratanavaraha
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 August 2024

This study explores the influence of Thai government policy perceptions on the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). Transitioning to EVs is vital for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and combating climate change, aligning with global sustainability...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,623 Views
17 Pages

18 February 2023

This paper discusses challenges for M&S if it is to be increasingly important to decision aiding and policy analysis. It suggests an approach that—from the outset of a policy analysis project—incorporates M&S of a varied resolutio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Simulation Modeling Theory and Practice: Pushing the Boundaries)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2,369 Views
21 Pages

26 December 2025

Over the past two decades, escalating climate crises, geopolitical conflicts, and pandemics have intensified the frequency and severity of disasters, exposing severe vulnerabilities in global food systems. In this pressing context, disaster nutrition...

(This article belongs to the Section Food Security and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
13,215 Views
22 Pages

29 May 2018

The complexity of ecological-economic systems significantly reduces our ability to investigate their behavior and propose policies aimed at various environmental and/or economic objectives. Following recent suggestions for integrating nonlinear dynam...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,760 Views
19 Pages

8 August 2024

The dominant source of the vehicle fleet in developing nations is the used vehicle market in developed nations. As the automotive fleet in developed nations electrifies, so will the used vehicle market. In many cases, developing nations’ electr...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,199 Views
19 Pages

18 January 2024

During the epidemic, construction site workers suffered from COVID-19 fear, job burnout, and job insecurity due to insufficient personal protective equipment. This study mainly explores the effect of policy formalism, equipment insufficiency, COVID-1...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Occupational Health in the Construction Industry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,300 Views
18 Pages

1 June 2021

How to boost the economy and achieve more sustainable development with enhanced quality, efficiency, and fairness by leveraging digital technology in the post-COVID-19 era has been an important agenda faced by many countries. As China’s new infrastru...

(This article belongs to the Topic Industrial Engineering and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,222 Views
16 Pages

27 June 2022

Hebei Province of China is facing a severe water resource shortage, making it urgent to formulate economical and effective water conservation policies. However, few studies have focused on analyzing the resource and economic impacts of a water policy...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,935 Views
20 Pages

21 December 2022

This study mainly explores the impact of policy formalism, COVID-19 fear, social support, and work stress on the anxiety of construction workers during the epidemic. The main objective of this study is to incorporate formalism variables to explore th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Construction Workplace Trends and Work Health and Safety)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,808 Views
20 Pages

2 April 2025

The structure of a policy communication network shows the effect of policy communication on social media. Policies need to be dynamically adjusted during the implementation process, which may affect the policy’s interaction on social media. Bas...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,791 Views
21 Pages

6 February 2025

Objective: To reach the goal of basically realizing fishery modernization by 2035, a goal which aims to achieve sustainable growth, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (hereinafter referred to as Xinjiang), a representative region of inland fisheries, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,493 Views
23 Pages

Analysis of the Impact of Policies and Meteorological Factors on Industrial Electricity Demand in Jiangsu Province

  • Zhanyang Xu,
  • Jian Xu,
  • Chengxi Xu,
  • Hong Zhao and ,
  • Hongyan Shi and
  • Zhe Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 November 2024

Under the strategic background of “carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060”, the impact of energy policy on China’s industrial electricity demand is increasingly significant. This study focuses on the industrial electricit...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,429 Views
12 Pages

20 December 2018

Land use/Land cover (LULC) changes as a result of policy planning influence ecosystem structures, processes, and functions, which are the basis for providing a wide range of ecosystem services (ES). There is an increasing consensus about the importan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Wildlife Ecology and Conservation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,519 Views
21 Pages

Communicating Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Efforts in American Cities

  • Constantine Boussalis,
  • Travis G. Coan and
  • Mirya R. Holman

24 March 2019

City governments have a large role to play in climate change mitigation and adaptation policies, given that urban locales are responsible for disproportionately high levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and are on the “front lines” of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Change Resilience and Urban Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,364 Views
30 Pages

25 August 2025

Promoting low-carbon travel modes is crucial for China’s transportation sector to achieve the dual carbon goals. When exploring the mechanisms behind individuals’ travel decisions, the relationships between factors such as the built envir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Transportation Systems and Travel Behaviors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
319 Views
19 Pages

25 September 2026

Construction and demolition waste can be recycled at high rates even when few components are reused for the same purpose. One reason lies in the information needed to trade reclaimed components: suppliers pay for testing, documentation, and verificat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Supply Chain Systems: Modeling, Analytics, and Decision-Making in the Digital Economy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,100 Views
11 Pages

13 August 2016

The UN sustainable development goals contain environmental, economic, and social objectives. They may only be reached, or at least it would be easier to reach them, if instead of a trade-off between these objectives that implies a need for balancing...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,019 Views
22 Pages

16 August 2025

China’s media governance policies play a crucial role in shaping media ecology and promoting the modernization of national governance capacity. This study employed the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model and co-occurrence network analysis t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
113 Views
24 Pages

28 October 2026

While the cross-sectoral development of forest wellness has given rise to studies on individual physiological–psychological benefits and rural development, the evolution of its policy goals and instruments remains largely unexplored. This paper...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forestry Economy Sustainability and Ecosystem Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,001 Views
18 Pages

28 October 2025

Rapid biofuel expansion has significantly reshaped agricultural land use in the United States, raising concerns about the conversion and long-term sustainability of marginal croplands. Understanding how policy incentives influence these land-use chan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Economics: The Trade-Offs Between Economics, Energy, and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
13,350 Views
21 Pages

The world decided in December 2015 to take actions to reduce global warming. To contribute toward this goal, this research examines possible policy levers for inclusion in the climate change ratification plan. A case study of the measures taken by th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 6th World Sustainability Forum - Selected Papers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,246 Views
26 Pages

The expansion of the construction sector in order to meet infrastructure demands is generating millions of tons of solid waste. This waste threatens resource sustainability and increases environmental challenges. Adopting a circular economy (CE) thro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
591 Views
40 Pages

Adaptive Health Systems Planning Under Uncertainty: A Multi-Level Systems Analytics Framework with Adaptive Policy Intelligence

  • Ahmed Abdallah Abaker,
  • Khalid Aldriwish,
  • Ibrahim Rizqallah Alzahrani and
  • Daifallah Zaid Alotaibe

24 June 2026

The health system is now more complex, uncertain, interdependent, and dynamically interconnected than ever, making traditional planning decisions based on static, reductionist models increasingly impracticable. Systems analytics approaches such as sy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,479 Views
34 Pages

16 January 2026

Reducing energy intensity is critical for combating climate change, yet current progress remains insufficient to meet international targets. Green-oriented policy narratives hold significant potential for mitigating energy intensity, but existing res...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,717 Views
11 Pages

18 October 2024

The Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate by Canada’s federal government is a significant initiative towards achieving net zero emissions by 2050. In this context, to quantify the evolution scale of ZEVs alongside charging pile, a system dynamics...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Industrial, Manufacturing, and Process Engineering (ICIMP-2024))
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,056 Views
13 Pages

22 March 2021

This paper considers innovations as one of the factors of sustainable agricultural development of the Stavropol Territory. It focuses on the impact of state policy at the regional level in the field of innovations on the sustainable development of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,845 Views
17 Pages

15 September 2025

With the development of digital technology, although local governments have been using digital means to improve the quality of public services, traditional statistical methods have limitations in processing complex, high-dimensional data and revealin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
733 Views
23 Pages

13 May 2026

This study examines public perceptions and discourse on climate change using artificial intelligence (AI)-based analysis of social media data, with implications for climate adaptation and sustainability policy. A dataset of 29,576 posts from the X pl...

(This article belongs to the Topic Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,992 Views
18 Pages

The Effects of Ecological Policy of Kyrgyzstan Based on Data Envelope Analysis

  • Yun Hao,
  • Degang Yang,
  • Jingjing Yin,
  • Xi Chen and ,
  • Anming Bao,
  • Miao Wu and
  • Xiaoyun Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

31 March 2019

Kyrgyzstan is located in the runoff formation area of Aral Sea basin. The ecological protection of this country has a great effect on the downstream and Aral Sea conservation. There were a few studies about this region carried out from ecological pol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,714 Views
19 Pages

22 March 2024

The policy synergy of coal resource-rich areas directly affects the process of regional green transformation and high-quality development. Shanxi, Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia are important coal energy bases, and studying the energy and environmental p...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
12,288 Views
18 Pages

This paper reviews the existing empirical micro-level models of demand for out-patient physician services where the size of patient payment is included either directly as an independent variable (when a flat-rate co-payment fee) or indirectly as a le...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,231 Views
21 Pages

27 April 2017

On 28 December 2014, the Beijing subway’s fare policy was changed from “Two Yuan” per trip to the era of Logging Ticket Price, charging users by travel mileage. This paper aims at investigating the effects of Beijing subway’s new fare policy on the r...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,227 Views
23 Pages

23 April 2026

This study investigates emotional patterns in state government disaster guideline documents using keyword-level emotion analysis and TF–IDF based topic modeling, framing disaster policy communication as an emotional–cognitive dual structu...

(This article belongs to the Section Gender, Race and Diversity in Organizations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,147 Views
11 Pages

A Retrospective Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic Evolution in Italy

  • Anna Fochesato,
  • Giulia Simoni,
  • Federico Reali,
  • Giulia Giordano and ,
  • Enrico Domenici and
  • Luca Marchetti
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 April 2021

Late 2019 saw the outbreak of COVID-19, a respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which rapidly turned into a pandemic, killing more than 2.77 million people and infecting more than 126 million as of late March 2021. Daily colle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theories and Models on COVID-19 Epidemics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,024 Views
24 Pages

27 December 2025

In recent years, China has made strong national commitments to waste reduction and circular economy, including the implementation of mandatory municipal solid waste separation policies and the rollout of zero-waste city initiatives. These efforts rep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,178 Views
39 Pages

31 December 2025

This study identifies key determinants shaping countries’ Sustainable Development Goals performance and develops classification models for predicting country group membership based on the SDG Index. The research addresses the urgent need to opt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,689 Views
32 Pages

24 November 2025

As a new engine for promoting the high-quality development of China’s foreign trade, digital trade provides new opportunities for enterprises’ low-carbon transition. Based on samples of export industrial enterprises listed in China from 2...

(This article belongs to the Collection Green Innovation: The Power Source of Enterprise Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,536 Views
26 Pages

Long-Term Distributional Impacts of European Cap-and-Trade Climate Policies: A CGE Multi-Regional Analysis

  • Roland Cunha Montenegro,
  • Vidas Lekavičius,
  • Jurica Brajković,
  • Ulrich Fahl and
  • Kai Hufendiek

3 December 2019

Carbon pricing is a policy with the potential to reduce CO2 emissions in the household sector and support the European Union in achieving its environmental targets by 2050. However, the policy faces acceptance problems from the majority of the public...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Energy Economics and Policy)

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