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USING INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS TO REGULATE VEHICLE EMISSIONS
Author(s) -
HUBBARD THOMAS N.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
contemporary economic policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.454
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1465-7287
pISSN - 1074-3529
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7287.1997.tb00465.x
Subject(s) - incentive , business , incentive program , quality (philosophy) , environmental economics , operations management , transport engineering , economics , engineering , microeconomics , philosophy , epistemology
Policymakers have hoped that vehicle inspection and maintenance programs would generate air quality improvements at low cost. Existing programs have been unsuccessful because they have failed to provide consumers with incentives to maintain their vehicles so as to have low in‐use emissions. This paper examines the reasons why existing inspection and maintenance programs have failed and investigates how they might be improved.