Beijing is a city with a history of about 3,000 years. In the past several decades, pursuing to be industrialized used to be a main goal of the city which caused more and more serious pollution problems. Since the late of 1990s, actions have been taken to deal with the air pollution in Beijing in order to enhance living level of its residents. However, countermeasures taken firstly were almost on the adjustment of development routine of industry. Until recent years, especially approaching the 2008 Olympic Games, complicated schemes on green transport was concretely carried out. It was not only aiming for a currently clean air, but also a future sustainable development of transport and urbanization. Among the actions taken on green transport, there are exploration of low emission vehicles, priority to public transport, cycling and walking improvement and intelligent information techniques application. This paper summarizes these action schemes and what's on now in Beijing.
Actions Taken on Green Transport: Experiences of Beijing
Seventh International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Studies (ICTTS) 2010 ; 2010 ; Kunming, China
2010-07-26
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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