The Role of Rail Transport for Sustainable Urban Transport

Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Xianmin Mai and Hirokazu Kato
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Yoshitsugu Hayashi: Nagoya University

Chapter Chapter 11 in Transport Moving to Climate Intelligence, 2011, pp 161-174 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract As an efficient mass transit system, rail transit system plays an important role for sustainability of mega-cities. Unfortunately, in many developing mega-cities, governments and international funding organizations prefer to invest in roads. Therefore, rail construction has lagged far behind road construction, and consequently those mega-cities always face serious congestion, which has even hindered economic development and caused catastrophic increase of CO2 emissions. There would be more than 50 mega-cities over ten million population in 2050 in Asian developing countries including China and India. According to IEA’s forecast, car ownership in Asian developing countries will grow between 2000 and 2050 by about 20 times. Unless the basic strategy in redesigning urban transport and the financing system for urban rail transit systems would be substantially improved, it is very likely that mega-cities over ten million populations without rail transit systems appear. In this paper, based on the study of the mechanism to cause chaotic congestion, land use-transport instruments and financing public transport as way out from catastrophe are proposed. AVOID, SHIFT and IMPROVE are set as three steps to mitigate CO2 emission in transport sector. Value capture mechanism for domestic financing and reforms on CDM and ODA for international financing are also suggested, making invisible windfall benefits to be visibly reclaimed, as well as achieving better public-private supports.

Keywords: Clean Development Mechanism; Transport Sector; Clean Development Mechanism Project; Rail Transit; Official Development Assistance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7643-7_11

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