Coordination Investigation of the Economic, Social and Environmental Benefits of Urban Public Transport Infrastructure in 13 Cities, Jiangsu Province, China

Xinghong He, Zhichao Cao, Silin Zhang, Shumin Liang, Yuyang Zhang, Tianbo Ji and Quan Shi
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Xinghong He: School of Transportation and Civil Engineering, Nantong University, Nantong 226000, China
Zhichao Cao: School of Transportation and Civil Engineering, Nantong University, Nantong 226000, China
Silin Zhang: School of Transportation and Civil Engineering, Nantong University, Nantong 226000, China
Shumin Liang: School of Transportation and Civil Engineering, Nantong University, Nantong 226000, China
Yuyang Zhang: School of Transportation and Civil Engineering, Nantong University, Nantong 226000, China
Tianbo Ji: School of Transportation and Civil Engineering, Nantong University, Nantong 226000, China
Quan Shi: School of Transportation and Civil Engineering, Nantong University, Nantong 226000, China

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 18, 1-19

Abstract: This study proposed an investigation-based multiple-criteria coordinated model to evaluate the sustainable development of urban public transport (PT) infrastructure, based on economic, social and environmental data from 2009 to 2019. The main problem with the traditional approach for assessing urban PT development is that economic and social benefits are considered individually, but also attention to environmental factors and coordination among the three issues are nearly overlooked. This leads to the likelihood of inaccuracies in the handling/assessment of sustainable development or an imbalance among the attributes in different cities. An investigation-based coordinated model was introduced in which a survey of 35 sub-criteria was conducted to derive the criteria necessary for coupling/coordination. A case study involving 13 cities in Jiangsu Province, China, illustrated the problems in coordinating PT systems and verified the efficacy of the proposed approach. With employing the entropy method, this study validated coordination of the PT infrastructure development of various cities in a balanced manner and used panel regression formulas to analyse the theoretical gap and empirical bottlenecks existing among economic, social and environmental benefits. With the findings of the study, the data-based investigation from 13 cities enabled the city planners/managers (including ones from other cities with similar urban levels) to give the individual priority between the ternary benefits, advance technology, allow big data-based informatisation and implement near-future autonomous PT vehicles.

Keywords: public transport infrastructure benefit; coordination development; environment evaluation; investigation-based coordinated model; entropy method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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