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Environmental impacts of transformative land use and transport developments in the Greater Beijing Region: Insights from a new dynamic spatial equilibrium model

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Authors

Denman, S 
Deng, D 
Rong, X 
Ma, M 

Abstract

This paper reports the insights into environmental impacts of the ongoing transformative land use and transport developments in Greater Beijing, from a new suite of dynamic land use, spatial equilibrium and strategic transport models that is calibrated for medium to long term land use and transport predictions. The model tests are focused on urban passenger travel demand and associated emissions within the municipality of Beijing, accounting for Beijing’s land use and transport interactions with Tianjin, Hebei and beyond. The findings suggests that background trends of urbanization, economic growth and income rises will continue to be very powerful drivers for urban passenger travel demand across all main modes of transport beyond 2030. In order to achieve the dual policy aims for a moderately affluent and equitable nation and reducing the absolute levels of urban transport emissions by 2030, road charging and careful micro-level coordination between land use, built form and public transport provision may need to be considered together for policy implementation in the near future.

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Keywords

travel demand forecasting, urban transport emissions, transformative development, land use/transport coordination, land use dynamics, spatial equilibrium model, strategic transport model, Greater Beijing

Journal Title

Transportation Research Part D

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Journal ISSN

1361-9209

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Elsevier
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K000314/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/L010917/1)
We wish to acknowledge partial funding support of EPSRC Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction at Cambridge University (EPSRC ref EP/K000314/1) for Ying Jin and Steve Denman, funding support from Tsinghua University Eco Planning and Green Building Lab (ref number) for all authors at Tsinghua University and Cambridge University, and China Scholarship Council funding for Ying Long, Debbie Bin Deng and Li Wan, Raymond and Helen Kwok Research Scholarship at Jesus College, Cambridge for Xiao Rong, and Cambridge Trust Scholarship for Mingfei Ma.