Traffic and emissions impact of congestion charging in the central Beijing urban area: A simulation analysis

Wu, Kehan; Chen, Yanyan; Ma, Jun; Bai, Song; Tang, Xiru

doi:10.1016/j.trd.2016.06.005

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“…In contrast with other research [1,11,13,25,33], we calculated the CO 2 Eq emissions per unit area and per VMT in each county and per mile by facility type. The estimated results showed that the high-ZEV ownership scenarios could reduce the CO 2 Eq emissions per VMT (shown in Table 5) among all counties and the gaps in CO 2 Eq emissions per mile among six road types (shown in Figure 8).…”

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Evaluating the Efficacy of Zero-Emission Vehicle Deployment Strategies: The Maryland Case

2019

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This study aimed to develop a model to estimate the impacts of zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) adoption on CO2 emissions and to evaluate efficacy of ZEV deployment strategies in achieving greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction goals. We proposed a modeling scheme to represent ZEVs in four-step trip-based travel demand models. We then tested six ZEV scenarios that were a cross-combination of three ZEV ownership levels and two ZEV operating cost levels. The proposed modeling scheme and scenarios were implemented on the Maryland Statewide Transportation Model (MSTM) to analyze the impacts of different ZEV ownership and cost combinations on travel patterns and on CO2 emissions. The main findings were the following: (1) A high-ZEV ownership scenario (43.14% of households with ZEVs) could achieve about a 16% reduction in statewide carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2Eq) emissions from 2015 base year levels; and (2) CO2Eq emissions at a future year baseline (2030) (the Constrained Long-Range Plan) level dropped by approximately 11% in low-ZEV ownership scenarios, 17% in medium-ZEV ownership scenarios, and 32% in high-ZEV ownership scenarios. The high-ZEV ownership results also indicated a more balanced distribution of emissions per unit area or per vehicle mile traveled among different counties.

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Evaluating the Efficacy of Zero-Emission Vehicle Deployment Strategies: The Maryland Case

2019

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“…We adopted a simple hypothetical charging policy that 50 yuan will be charged for driving a car within the charging zone between 7:00 and 18:00, as complex charging methods (e.g. Wu, et al, 2017) because it could be difficult for participants to understand and the research does not focus on the charging strategy. We also provided different charging schemes in the participant information sheet including different charges (10 CNY, 20CNY, 50CNY) and highlighted that the price and charging zones are hypothetical and is open for discussion.…”

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Egalitarianism and public perception of social inequities: A case study of Beijing congestion charge

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ReuseThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. This licence only allows you to download this work and share it with others as long as you credit the authors, but you can't change the article in any way or use it commercially. More information and the full terms of the licence here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ TakedownIf you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing eprints@whiterose.ac.uk including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. AbstractEgalitarian thought has a long tradition in Chinese history. Synthesized with the socialist ideology, it was practiced nationwide in the first decades of Communist China. Alongside the well-reported quality of life improvements that the recent economic liberalisation reforms have brought about, Chinese people are experiencing an increasingly serious polarization between the rich and the poor. Consequently, an egalitarian tendency has represented itself within contemporary policy and popular discourse. This paper aims to explore how egalitarian thought has influenced public awareness of social inequities by using the case of public attitudes towards the Beijing congestion charge, which is currently still at its planning stage. Nine focus groups, with a total of 73 participants, were undertaken with residents living in different areas of the city. Results show that the perceptions of social inequities are significantly different between low-income and high-income people. Due to egalitarian thinking, low-income people expect the privileges of the rich to be abolished, however, they do not pay much attention to a wider redistribution of wealth and other social resources. By contrast, richer people tend to deny to a wider population the privileges they themselves received, and, to some extent, they are reluctant to accept policy outcomes that may favour those who are in lower social positions. The resentment against the rich, as another by-product of egalitarianism, considerably exaggerates actual social inequalities, thereby intensifying the feelings of being unequally treated.

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“…The result demonstrated that this policy reduced the total vehicle kilometer trip (VKT) and the total emissions by 9.6% and 6.9%, respectively. In the areas of traffic congestion, Wu et al [28] explored the problem of congestion charges in Beijing. By assuming different charging zone sizes, charging rates and transit service levels, the author constructed different scenarios, and then, carried out macro-simulation.…”

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Impact of Time Restriction and Logistics Sprawl on Urban Freight and Environment: The Case of Beijing Agricultural Freight

2019

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Time restriction and logistics sprawl (e.g., relocating logistics facilities), as two popular urban policies, usually affect the urban freight and environmental burden, but their combination might lead to unexpected results. This paper analyzes the impact of time restriction and logistics sprawl on urban freight and local environments based on a Beijing agricultural freight case through traffic simulation. The data is derived through a freight demand forecasting method. Based on the data, this paper constructs four groups of scenarios to represent different policies (or combined policies) and then conducts macro-simulation to obtain the economic and environmental indicators. Results show that (1) time restriction can increase the freight costs and slightly decrease local emissions, while logistics sprawl can increase both costs and emissions; (2) the joint implementation of the two policies are proved to be positive in economic and environmental aspects because it helps freight carriers adopt a new strategy to improve delivery efficiency; (3) urban freight policies are closely related to the freight carriers because different responses from carriers can lead to different policy effects.

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Traffic and emissions impact of congestion charging in the central Beijing urban area: A simulation analysis

Cited by 62 publications

References 15 publications

Evaluating the Efficacy of Zero-Emission Vehicle Deployment Strategies: The Maryland Case

Evaluating the Efficacy of Zero-Emission Vehicle Deployment Strategies: The Maryland Case

Egalitarianism and public perception of social inequities: A case study of Beijing congestion charge

Impact of Time Restriction and Logistics Sprawl on Urban Freight and Environment: The Case of Beijing Agricultural Freight

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