Environmental benefit analysis of “road-to-rail” policy in China based on a railway tunnel measurement

Tong, Hui; Peng, Jianfei; Zhang, Yanjie; Fang, Tiange; Zhang, Jinsheng; Men, Zhengyu; Liu, Yan; Wu, Lin; Wang, Ting; Ren, Fangfang; Xu, Honglei; Weichao, Wang; Du, Zhuofei; Mao, Hongjun

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128227

Cited by 14 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 38 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Active transportation improvements that result in residents achieving physical activity targets (150 weekly minutes for physical activity) could reduce transportation emissions 24% and avoid 167,000 deaths and gain 2.5 million disability adjusted life years, with $1.6 trillion monetized health benefits 51 . An analysis of travel activity in seven European cities found that increased walking and bicycling significantly reduce motorized travel and per capita carbon emissions 54 , 55 . An average person who shifts from driving to bicycling one daily trip 200 days a year decreases approximately 0.5 tons of annual CO2 emissions, a substantial reduction of per capita GHG emissions.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

A comprehensive walkability evaluation system for promoting environmental benefits

Jeong,

Choi,

Kwak

et al. 2023

Sci Rep

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Pedestrian-oriented urban strategies such as the Paris 15-minute City are needed to respond to the global boiling. Quantitative evaluation of pedestrian-oriented urban objectives is important for various cities, and in this paper, a walkability evaluation system for the advanced model is developed considering the characteristics of a large city. The system calculates the walkability of Seoul. The evaluation system uses the Betweenness index as a weight in the urban network analysis. Considering stations with a high betweenness in urban traffic is essential for evaluating a pedestrian-oriented metropolis. Our findings in this study are that the UNA index in WES is critical for transit-oriented, walkable cities. The large city needs to find the location for mobility hubs or stations to observe the last mile. Installing a mobility hub or station at a high-value location in the city center is functionally important. In a pedestrian-oriented city, citizens can walk and bike the last mile in a busy city center. Walkable cities can encourage active transport and ultimately create more sustainable and environmentally friendly transportation systems. This study offers valuable insights into pedestrian infrastructure, urban systems, and policies that promote green transportation.

show abstract

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

A comprehensive walkability evaluation system for promoting environmental benefits

Jeong,

Choi,

Kwak

et al. 2023

Sci Rep

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…found that the current implementation of the road-to-rail policy was not well evaluated operationally due to the lack of real-world diesel locomotive emission measurements. Thus, the study conducted emission measurements of 245 active diesel locomotives on real railroad tracks to provide data for the evaluation of the environmental benefits of the implementation of the railroad alternative to longdistance highway policy [19].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Jianjun Xu. Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences, 9(1) (2024)[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] …”

unclassified

Research on energy-saving strategies in the architectural design of the Eastern Railway in the era of artificial intelligence

2024

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper takes the air conditioning energy consumption in railroad building design as the main object of analysis and uses an orthogonal experimental design method to study the influencing factors and effects of energy consumption in the Middle East railroad construction design. Stochastic working condition simulation is carried out for the typical models of passenger stations in five climate zones to obtain the data set of the passenger station energy consumption model, and the multiple linear regression prediction models of air conditioning energy consumption in different regions are established. Combined with the hour-by-hour average outdoor temperature, hour-by-hour passenger flow and lighting and related equipment data in the waiting hall of a city in July, the air-conditioning cold load of railroad passenger stations is simulated and analyzed. Explore the implementation effect of energy-saving strategies for railroad passenger station air-conditioning system, and for the traditional PID control strategy, put forward the control strategy based on model prediction, analyze the change of centralized air-conditioning system cold load and the change of the actual performance coefficient of the chiller unit under different control strategies. The data show that compared with the traditional PID control, the model prediction control reduces the total energy consumption by 0.2063, which realizes the energy-saving optimization of the air conditioning system for railroad building design.

show abstract

“…Currently, China has been in an unreasonable road-dominated transportation structure for a long time, which not only reduces transportation efficiency but also contributes to a large amount of energy consumption and CO 2 emissions that considerably harm environmental quality and sustainability [1,2]. To achieve energy conservation and environmental protection in the transportation sector, China is promoting a modal shift policy to motivate the change of long-haul goods transportation from road to rail [3]. The modal shift policy aims to increase the proportion of railways in long-haul goods transportation and establish a reasonable transportation structure that can effectively combine road and rail transportation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling a Carbon-Efficient Road–Rail Intermodal Routing Problem with Soft Time Windows in a Time-Dependent and Fuzzy Environment by Chance-Constrained Programming

Sun

Huang

et al. 2023

Systems

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study explores a road–rail intermodal routing problem. To improve the carbon efficiency of transportation, reducing CO2 emissions is considered by the routing. Soft time windows are incorporated into the routing to optimize the timeliness of the first-mile pickup and last-mile delivery services in intermodal transportation. The routing is further modeled in a time-dependent and fuzzy environment where the average truck speeds of the road depend on the truck departure times and are simultaneously considered fuzzy along with rail capacities. The fuzzy truck speed leads to the fuzziness of three aspects, including speed-dependent CO2 emissions of the road, a timetable-constrained transfer process from road to rail, and delivery time window violation. This study formulates the routing problem under the above considerations and carbon tax regulation as a combination of transportation path planning problem and truck departure time and speed matching problem. A fuzzy nonlinear optimization model is then established for the proposed routing problem. Furthermore, chance-constrained programming with general fuzzy measure is used to conduct the defuzzification of the model to make the problem solvable, and linearization techniques are adopted to linearize the model to enhance the efficiency of problem-solving. Finally, this study presents an empirical case to demonstrate the effectiveness of the designed approach. This case study evaluates the performance of carbon tax regulation by comparing it with multi-objective optimization. It also focuses on sensitivity analysis to discuss the influence of the optimistic–pessimistic parameter and confidence level on the optimization results. Several managerial insights are revealed based on the case study.

show abstract

Environmental benefit analysis of “road-to-rail” policy in China based on a railway tunnel measurement

Cited by 14 publications

References 38 publications

A comprehensive walkability evaluation system for promoting environmental benefits

A comprehensive walkability evaluation system for promoting environmental benefits

Research on energy-saving strategies in the architectural design of the Eastern Railway in the era of artificial intelligence

Modeling a Carbon-Efficient Road–Rail Intermodal Routing Problem with Soft Time Windows in a Time-Dependent and Fuzzy Environment by Chance-Constrained Programming

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About