A study of carbon dioxide emissions performance of China's transport sector

Guanghui Zhou, William Chung and Xiliang Zhang

Energy, 2013, vol. 50, issue C, 302-314

Abstract: Undesirable output-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models with different return of scales are used to study the CO2 (Carbon dioxide) emissions performance of the transport sector throughout China's 30 administrative regions. Empirical results show that the number of efficient regions has decreased since 2004, hitting the lowest record in 2006, and improving slightly afterwards. The overall average performance rating reached its peak in 2004 and continuously decreased until it hit its lowest record in 2006. Although it slightly increased in 2007, performance rating has decreased since 2008. This pattern is consistent with the policy guidance of the transport sector in the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006–2010). In general, Eastern China performed better than Central and Western by adjusting undesirable output (CO2). However, Central performed better than Eastern and Western by adjusting both CO2 emissions and desirable outputs. It may be because that transport infrastructure facilities are heavily concentrated in Eastern and spatial clusters. The clusters are like stair steps decreasing from the higher Eastern to Central then to the lower Western. This indicates that the development of transport infrastructure go hand in hand in China. Hence, Eastern may not have too much improvement room by adjusting desirable outputs.

Keywords: Transport sector; Carbon dioxide emissions performance; DEA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2012.11.045

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