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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
3. Railways and National Carbon Emissions from Passenger Travel in China
Author : Linna Li
Published in: Railways and Sustainable Low-Carbon Mobility in China
Publisher: Springer Singapore
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Abstract
Chapter 3 is the national-level analysis tracing the historical evolution and spatial disparity of CO2 emissions from passenger transport in China. The general trends of CO2 emissions from four passenger transport modes are estimated by both the distance-based and fuel-based methods. It tries to prove that emissions from rail transport have lower emission intensity than road and air transport. Moreover, the decomposition analysis is used to explore the factor of modal shifts influencing the growth of passenger transport CO2 emissions in China since 1949. Some implications to encourage modal shifts towards sustainable transport modes are also discussed.