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Title:

Transportation Models and Their Mobile-Source GHG Modules in Chinese Cities: Findings Based on Structured Interviews and On-line Surveys

Accession Number:

01367849

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

This paper provides an overview of travel demand models and their respective Greenhouse Gas (GHG) modeling modules if any, in China and related data sharing issues, based on structured phone interviews of 20 transportation modelers, professors or officials, and two on-line surveys of stakeholders who cared about the data sharing issues. The interviews and the surveys were conducted in sequence in 2011. This paper finds that regularly updated comprehensive plans are now a norm for Chinese cities. This has pushed the cities to calibrate and develop their respective transportation-land use models, which may contain a GHG modeling module. A bunch of public or semi-public entities in China have the strongest technical capacities of travel demand and GHG modeling and have better connections to the government. The connections make it difficult for their private counterparts to compete with them in the market. Access to data owned or collected by the government is the biggest barrier for private consulting firms and NGOs who want to work on travel demand and GHG models in China. The primary contributors of the barrier included the government’s concerns over the political implication of data, lack of a tradition of data sharing and reliability and accuracy of the data collected or available. Proposals by survey respondents to improve the above data access are: (a) Establish necessary laws and regulations about data collection and sharing; (b) Encourage more open discussions of data-sharing issues; (c) Pay attention to each component of the full life cycle of data; (d) Educate stakeholders and increase their awareness of data sharing.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADC70(2) Climate Change

Monograph Accession #:

01362476

Report/Paper Numbers:

12-3922

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Zhou, Jiangping

Publication Date:

2012

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2012-1-22 to 2012-1-26
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Transportation models

Geographic Terms:

China

Subject Areas:

Data and Information Technology; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-3922

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 8 2012 5:20PM