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“Transportation for A Better Life:
Smart Mobility for Now and Then”

23 August 2019, Bangkok, Thailand

taxis and buses, are also good targets for CNG fleet 2.1. Financial Barriers
policies. From these results is clear that respondents
Non-price incentives depend very much on are mostly concerned about the financial barriers
the country, and should be related to factors which related to vehicle price and gas fuel.
influence purchase decisions of potential NGV - High capital cost of NGVs and fuelling
customers, including charging station locations, station.
exemption from road and congestion charges. - Uncertainty about price stability and
National policies are basically targeted steady support of gas
toward fiscal incentives. Policies that have been - Lack of support from local government
especially successful in this context include waivers for loans and taxes.
on regulations that limit the availability of license
plates (e.g, implemented in many cities in China),
exemptions from usage fees for road networks or
parking fees.
An important long-term policy is also the
ban of fossil fuel vehicles. Country such as China
have proclaimed plans to ban fossil fuel vehicles,
with the earliest being Norway (targeting to ban
fossil fuel vehicles by 2025), and many countries
targeting from 2030 to 2040.
In most countries, policies are directed
toward commercial vehicles because these would Fig. 7 Resulting financial barriers
have a far bigger impact. For example, policies were
deployed for promoting CNG buses include 2.2. Non-Financial Barriers
requiring operators to have a gradually increasing Two major highlighted barriers with more
share of CNG buses in their fleets, favoring CNG than 70% of respondents indicating high levels of
buses in public tendering or routes, subsidizing concern.
charging infrastructure, implementing up-front - The limitation of infrastructure
purchase subsidies. - Lack of sufficient information regarding
Application of NGV policies are listed in CNG/LNG
Table 1.
2. Results from Customer Survey
A total of 346 companies have been
included in the preliminary results. They were
invited to interview surveys through sending official
letters and calling. However, only 116 companies
agreed to answer the questionnaire and these data
were collected to consider the barriers for consuming
NGVs.
89
0%
Fig. 8 Resulting non-financial barriers
2,014
14%
4,820 Economic viability of NGVs is the barriers
33%
3,053 most hampering the development of this market. In
21% contrast, the lack of social acceptance is not among
the biggest concerns for the organizations in the
sector. The economic viability of vehicle investment
4,727
32% and infrastructure deployment are also concerned.
Ranked from most influential to less:
taxis trucks intercity buses buses ships 1) Loan interest
Fig. 6 Respondents categorized by transport modes
2) Capital cost for vehicle and fuelling
station.
3) Infrastructure limitation

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