Transcript Global Challenges and Sustainable Futures Towards

Global Challenges and Sustainable Futures
Towards Sustainable
Transportation in Beijing
Kongjing Xing
Helena Hehlke
Anna Ivarsson
Guangjian Lee
Xiafei Zhang
Outline of Presentation
• The problem – congestion & air pollution
• Reason for congestion
• The solution
– Reduce car usage
– Improve and expand public transportation
– Alternative means of transportation
– City restructuring
The problem – background
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15 million inhabitants
More than 3 million private cars
Private cars increase by 1,500 / day
Air pollution causes bad visibility, partly
due to the congestion
• Health problems, hazardous substances in
air
Why is it so congested? (1)
Too many cars per ratio of infrastructure
• Rapid increase of cars
• Relatively low price on cars
• People’s attitude
• Cars of government employees are
subsidized
Why is it so congested? (2)
Insufficient public transportation
• Public transportation linkages and
connections not adequate
• Infrastructure not dimensioned for the
current situation – previous planning of city
Why is it so congested? (3)
City center planning
• View map
• Too far to bike
• centralization of commercial,
administrative, and business entities
Cars
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Increase tax and two-way tax system
Expensive parking, fuel, car insurance
Car-pooling
Car restricted zones in hot spots
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only for public transportation
Gov. change their employee-transportation
policy
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Incentives, bonus system
Transportation funds for public transportation
Public transportation - bus
• Increase frequency and expand the
number of linkages, connections and lines
• Different kinds of buses
– point-point buses
– Few stops
– Frequent stops
• Biogas-fueled buses, from organic waste
• Campaigns on benefit of public
transportation
Bicycles
• Facilitate bike using (financed
from car tax)
– Designated biking lanes
– More bike rental spots
– Biking as a comfort – eg. free
drinks on bike spots for all
bikers
• Underground biking tunnel for
hotspots
• Celebrities to encourage biking –
trend to bike
City centre re-planning
• Decentralization of administrative,
business, commercial from center
• Create many centers to diversify the city
functions
– From ONE center to MANY centers
Conclusion
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