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Journal Of Automotive Safety And Energy ›› 2013, Vol. 4 ›› Issue (4): 300-314.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8484.2013.04.002

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Automotive social cost and the regulation on air pollution

Li Chunli   

  1. Faculty of Economics, Aichi University, Nagoya 453-8777, Japan
  • Received:2013-12-06 Online:2013-12-25 Published:2014-01-15
  • About author:Prof. LI Chunli，is a professor of the Faculty of Economics of Aichi University, Japan, a chair professor of Zhejiang University, and a part-time professor of Nankai University. He also works as a academic supervisor for Ph D candidates of the Ph D program jointly operated by Aichi University (Japan), Remin University of China, and Nankai University. At the same time he is also working as an affiliated researcher of the International Motor Vehicle Program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Manufacturing Management Research Center of University of Tokyo, and vice president of the Japan Chinese Society of Automotive Engineers (JCSAE). His research field covers the automotive industrial and social policies, innovation and lean management.

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Abstract: The core concept of automotive social cost was introduced by using the theories and analytical
tools of social cost and externality of economics with analyzing the policies for some regulation of air pollution,
which have some negative effects of automobiles, and is represented by the treatments over PM 2.5 particles.
Some issues related to automotive social cost were analyzed with the negative externality, and the necessity
of environmental regulation was elaborated through the perspective of "internalizing an externality", with an
explanation over the basic rules of air pollution caused by excessive using automobiles, putting focus on
hazes and automotive exhausts, and taking a systematic case over Japan's process of regulating PM and NOx
emissions. A specific discussion was focused on the experiences and the methods of Tokyo to treat particulate
matter emissions, as a sample of a city's regulation over the exhausts of diesel fuel vehicles. Some proposals
were made to the policy makers in China.

Key words: automotive society, social cost, internalizing an externality, particulate matter (PM), PM 2.5, NOx

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