Global Challenges and Sustainable Futures
Towards Sustainable Transportation in Beijing
Kongjing XingHelena HehlkeAnna IvarssonGuangjian LeeXiafei Zhang
Outline of Presentation
• The problem – congestion & air pollution
• Reason for congestion
• The solution– Reduce car usage– Improve and expand public transportation– Alternative means of transportation– City restructuring
The problem – background
• 15 million inhabitants
• More than 3 million private cars
• Private cars increase by 1,500 / day
• Air pollution causes bad visibility, partly due to the congestion
• Health problems, hazardous substances in air
Why is it so congested? (1)
Too many cars per ratio of infrastructure
• Rapid increase of cars
• Relatively low price on cars
• People’s attitude
• Cars of government employees are subsidized
Why is it so congested? (2)
Insufficient public transportation
• Public transportation linkages and connections not adequate
• Infrastructure not dimensioned for the current situation – previous planning of city
Why is it so congested? (3)
City center planning
• View map
• Too far to bike
• centralization of commercial, administrative, and business entities
Cars
• Increase tax and two-way tax system• Expensive parking, fuel, car insurance• Car-pooling• Car restricted zones in hot spots
– only for public transportation
• Gov. change their employee-transportation policy
– Incentives, bonus system– Transportation funds for public transportation
Public transportation - bus
• Increase frequency and expand the number of linkages, connections and lines
• Different kinds of buses– point-point buses– Few stops– Frequent stops
• Biogas-fueled buses, from organic waste• Campaigns on benefit of public
transportation
Bicycles
• Facilitate bike using (financed from car tax)– Designated biking lanes– More bike rental spots– Biking as a comfort – eg. free dri
nks on bike spots for all bikers
• Underground biking tunnel for hotspots
• Celebrities to encourage biking – trend to bike
City centre re-planning
• Decentralization of administrative, business, commercial from center
• Create many centers to diversify the city functions– From ONE center to MANY centers
Conclusion
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