论文题目：Emission Reduction Through Regulating Indirect Sources
报告人：赵赛，中国科学院大学经济与管理学院特别研究助理/博士后
时间：2025年11月18日10:30至11:30
地点：新主楼A706
摘要：Emissions from diesel semitrucks, such as nitrogen oxides, have contributed significantly to air pollution, prompting government intervention. However, directly regulating trucking companies’ diesel truck usage often falls outside the jurisdiction of local governments. A legislative alternative is to regulate other sectors within the local region that indirectly drive diesel truck usage, referred to as indirect emission sources. The first of such regulations is Southern California’s Rule 2305, the warehouse indirect source rule (ISR), which holds warehouses accountable for the diesel truck visits to their facilities via a mitigation fee. The goal is to incentivize the adoption of electric semitrucks and reduce air pollution. Motivated by this policy shift, we examine the effectiveness of the ISR, focusing on its environmental impact and the industry burden that it imposes compared with a hypothetical direct source rule (DSR) that would regulate trucking companies directly. We develop game theory models to analyze the decision-making process of warehouses and trucking companies under both the ISR and the DSR. Our findings suggest that the ISR has the potential to encourage greater adoption of electric semitrucks while reducing the industry’s cost burden, particularly when mitigation fees for diesel truck trips are kept low. However, the current ISR practice of using mitigation fees to subsidize electric semitruck investments for trucking companies may backfire, potentially hindering electric truck adoption. Factors including competition in the trucking sector and regional characteristics, such as truck trip distance distributions, can either exacerbate or alleviate these effects. Our results indicate that the ISR can be an effective tool for emissions control. However, governments must carefully consider potential unintended consequences when designing and implementing such policies. We further contextualize our findings using real warehouse data from Southern California.
作者简介：赵赛，中国科学院大学经济与管理学院特别研究助理/博士后，本硕博毕业于南开大学商学院，美国乔治城大学联合培养博士生。研究领域为可持续运营管理、环境经济学，以第一作者或通讯作者身份在Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (UTD-24)、IISE Transactions、Omega、International Journal of Production Economics、Operations Research Letters、中国管理科学等国内外知名期刊发表多篇学术论文，主持国家自然科学青年基金项目[C类]、国家资助博士后研究人员计划[C档]、中国博士后科学基金面上项目等多项科研项目。
