Researchers urge Chinese government to encourage bikes, buses & rail over cars and commercial vehicles due to emissions

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Based on the results of their analysis of the potential air quality and health impacts of travel demand in China under business-as-usual and alternative transport scenarios, a team of researchers in China is urging policymakers to encourage the replacement of private cars for short trips with bicycles or public buses and the replacement of commercial vehicles with rail transport.

In their paper, published in the journal Energy Policy, Ling-Yun HE and Lu-Yi QIU, observe that regulatory policies imposed on vehicle usage as well as on car ownership can not solve the growing emissions problem.

China’s passenger-kilometers (pkm) has risen from 1746.67 billion pkm in 2005 to 3009.74 billion pkm in 2014, according to the National Bureau of Statistics of China—an increase of 72.3%.

In China in 2013, The transport sector consumed 348.19 million tons of coal equivalent (tce), which resulted in serious air pollution. Emissions of CO, HC, NOx and PM from passenger vehicles were 18.95, 2.04, 18.89 and 0.12 million tons, respectively. . . .
 
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