A Comparison for Private and Social Analysis of Dual Consumption Automobiles Case Study:Taxies in Mashhad

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Article 2, Volume 18, Issue 1, June 2011   

Document Type: مقالات پژوهشی

DOI: 10.22067/erd.v18i1.13675

Authors

Mahdi Khodaparast Mashhadi^* ; Nasim Arabian

Abstract

University of Mashhad

Abstract
This research is an attempt to study the economics of replacing the gasoline burning taxies with dual “gas-gasoline” burning taxies by analyzing the private and social benefits resulted by this replacement of fuel consumption. For this end a sample of Mashhad taxies with 423 taxies under study has been taken and the required information about the costs and benefits of this replacement has been obtained via questionnaire and the Equivalent Uniform Annual Method has been employed for analyzing the collected data. The results of this research indicate that in 1388 the replacement of gasoline burning taxies with dual” gas-gasoline” burning taxies in private analysis have an interest as big as 2281700 Rials annually and in social analysis (with the assumption of having raise in the number of gas stations and arrive opportunity cost premised zero) an interest as big as 2757512 Rials is earned.

Key words: Dual” gas-gasoline” taxies, Compressed natural gas, Emissions, Equivalent Uniform Annual method

Keywords

Dual” gas-gasoline” taxies; Compressed natural gas; Emissions; Equivalent Uniform Annual method