Recently, the paper "Peaking CO₂ emissions for China's urban passenger transport sector" by Yu Biying, associate professor of the Center and Li Xi, a graduate master's student, was published in the International Journal (Energy Policy).

     Due to economic development and urbanization, the number of car ownership continues to increase, making the urban passenger transport sector an important contributor to energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions in China. Therefore, how the urban passenger transport sector can contribute to peaking China’s carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 is worthy of attention.

     To this end, this study designed a National Technology-Transport (NET-Transport) model based on the principle of minimum cost optimization to measure the energy demand and emissions of the transport sector under different scenarios. This study evaluates the promotion of clean fuels and new energy vehicles in the field of urban passenger transport, the improvement of vehicle fuel economy, and the improvement of energy-saving and emission reduction effects of urban public transport travel. The results show that in the context of promoting the use of clean fuel vehicles and increasing vehicle fuel efficiency, CO2 emissions of China’s urban passenger transport sector could reach a peak of 225MtCO2 in 2030. If the mode share of public transport could further increase, the CO2 emissions from the urban passenger transport sector in China are possible to peak at around 2020 with the emissions ranging from 171 to 214 MtCO2

Original link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.110913