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  Press Releases // 12.09.2024

  An Energy-Intensive Pipe Dream with Little Acceptance

  Vehicles for urban air mobility (UAM), such as eVTOLs (electric vertical take-off and landing), also called air taxis, are often touted as having great potential. They are expected to be more efficient [...] electric cars. UAM could be useful primarily for emergency missions and connecting remote areas. - “Urban air mobility is often marketed as sustainable, fast, and affordable. However, our studies show that [...] cars, eVTOLs require even more energy, which means they do not contribute positively to the energy transition in the transport sector,” explains Dr. Anna Straubinger from ZEW’s “Environmental and Climate
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  Press Releases // 22.02.2024

  Poor Chinese in Particular Benefit from Party Membership

  Households in urban China with members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are more than 20 per cent wealthier than those without CCP members. Surprisingly, amidst the transition phase of the world’s [...] a recent ZEW study. - The study demonstrates a shift in the wealth premiums of CCP households in urban China: before the reform, wealth was concentrated in the middle of the distribution, while afterwards
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  News // 05.07.2022

  #ZEWPodcast: How to Make a Successful Heat Transition

  requirements truly advance the heating transition? - In conversation with podcast host Carola Hesch, von Graevenitz presents her research on the heat transition. Baden-Württemberg served as an example [...] heating system. The team of researchers from ZEW Mannheim and the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) Dresden conducted an empirical analysis on the effect of the law using
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  Press Releases // 13.06.2022

  Minimum Standards Can Speed Up the Expansion of Renewable Energies in Heat Supply

  recent study by ZEW Mannheim and the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) Dresden. - “The heat transition is essential for Germany to achieve its climate goals. In view of [...] of the war in Ukraine and related sanctions, the heat transition has now become an even more urgent matter than before,” explains Professor Kathrine von Graevenitz, deputy head of ZEW’s “Environmental and [...] energy price relief package, the German government coalition also wants to drive forward the heating transition. For example, every newly installed heating system is to be powered by 65 per cent renewable energies
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  News // 17.11.2021

  Enabling New Dynamics

  that this does not remain the case and that more competition enters this market, a separation of the rail infrastructure from the rest of the DB Group is an important step. This would prevent distortions [...] also serve to bridge financing bottlenecks. The electricity market is at the centre of the energy transition. However, there is a lack of price sig-nals that create incentives for the necessary massive expansion
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  News // 12.10.2021

  ZEW Economist Kathrine von Graevenitz Takes Over Professorship for Environmental Economics at the University of Mannheim

  influence of environmental policy regulations and, in particular, the question of how the energy transition influences the economic success and pollutant emissions of German industry.” ZEW President Professor [...] Graevenitz defended her doctoral thesis, “Improved Methods for the Valuation of the Environment in an Urban Setting”, at the University of Copenhagen in November 2013. She has been a researcher at ZEW Mannheim
• Publications // 21.10.2020

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Cost-Effcient Transition to Clean Energy Transportation Services

  in a vehicle fleet of competing drivetrains. Calibrating our model framework in the context of urban transit buses, we examine how the comparison between diesel and battery-electric buses varies with the
• Events // 26.05.2020

  Mannheim’s Transition to New Forms of Mobility Coronavirus Crisis, Climate Protection and Challenges for Sustainable Urban Mobility

  project is to actively shape the transition to sustainable mobility by, for instance, limiting levels of particulate matter and reducing emissions, while ensuring that urban transport remains fast, efficient [...] frequency of transport services enough to reduce the emission of pollutants and ensure sustainable urban mobility? At the same time, the question remains whether, in view of the coronavirus pandemic, it
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  News // 14.03.2019

  No Exception for a “European Champion”

  the merger was needed as a counterweight to China’s state-owned CRRC, the largest supplier of rail transit equipment in the world. With annual revenues totaling some 30 billion euros, CRRC is twice as [...] allies. Her decision should be applauded. - In 2017, the German conglomerate Siemens and the French rail transport multinational Alstom announced a plan to combine their train-manufacturing operations. Had
• Events // 12.10.2018

  Economic Decisions under Risks: the Role of Heterogeneity, Interactions and Evolving Risk Perceptions

  ity, interactions and evolving risk perceptions become central in assessing expected damages and urban resilience to climate-driven floods. Tatiana Filatova is Professor of Economic Modeling for [...] research line focuses on exploring how behavioral changes at micro level may lead to critical transitions (tipping points/regime shifts) on macro level in complex adaptive human-environment systems in