Motorization Process and Management in Big Cities in China: Take Beijing as an Example

In this paper authors discuss contingencies surrounding the rapid increase in motorization found China as a combined result of a large, rapidly urbanizing population. Authors note that, while it took 50 years for the city of Beijing to have one million vehicles on its roadways, it took only six and a half subsequent years to gain another million and, in the last four years, the city has now reached a total of three million vehicles. It is noted that such a rapid expansion affects a great number of issues that should be considered by the country’s transportation policies. These issues include traffic congestion, energy problems, and air and water pollution. Policy recommendations put forward take into account proper transportation policy evolution, the construction of railways, an adequate transportation demand management (TDM) policy, and an adequate parking policy.

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• Authors:
  • Ma, Hong
  • Yang, Xinmiao
  • Shi, Qixin
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 42-47
• Serial:
  • IATSS Research
  • Volume: 31
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences
  • ISSN: 0386-1112

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile ownership; Automobile travel; Rapid transit; Statistical analysis; Transportation policy; Urban growth
• Geographic Terms: Beijing (China)
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01089533
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 29 2008 7:40AM