Journal
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 17, Issue 14, Pages 1281-1288Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2009.03.010
Keywords
Compressed natural gas vehicles; Diesel vehicles; Tokyo; Technological lock-in; Public coordination
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This paper analyzes a recent attempt by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to replace diesel vehicles with low-emission vehicles, particularly, compressed natural gas vehicles. As commonly observed in the transportation sector, when strong complementarities among the components of a complex technological system exist, a failure in coordination results to a state of technological lock-in. In this respect, the public sector can serve a focal role in coordination to promote new technologies. The Tokyo experience illustrates the potentials and limitations in overcoming a state of technological lock-in by effective management of the behaviors and expectations of the relevant actors involved in using, producing, and supporting alternative clean vehicles. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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