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The Role of Rail Transport for Sustainable Urban Transport

In: Transport Moving to Climate Intelligence

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  • Yoshitsugu Hayashi

    (Nagoya University)

  • Xianmin Mai
  • Hirokazu Kato

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.

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  • Yoshitsugu Hayashi & Xianmin Mai & Hirokazu Kato, 2011. "The Role of Rail Transport for Sustainable Urban Transport," Transportation Research, Economics and Policy, in: Werner Rothengatter & Yoshitsugu Hayashi & Wolfgang Schade (ed.), Transport Moving to Climate Intelligence, chapter 0, pages 161-174, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:trachp:978-1-4419-7643-7_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7643-7_11
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    1. Nakamura, Kazuki & Hayashi, Yoshitsugu, 2013. "Strategies and instruments for low-carbon urban transport: An international review on trends and effects," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 29(C), pages 264-274.
    2. Kitsaphon Thitisiriwech & Teerapong Panboonyuen & Pittipol Kantavat & Boonserm Kijsirikul & Yuji Iwahori & Shinji Fukui & Yoshitsugu Hayashi, 2023. "Quality of Life Prediction in Driving Scenes on Thailand Roads Using Information Extraction from Deep Convolutional Neural Networks," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(3), pages 1-19, February.

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