Title: Carbon Emissions and Reduction Scenarios of Transportation in Beijing
Abstract: Under the background of sustainable development, conservation of energy resources and reduction of waste and environmental emissions is the prerequisite of environmental protection and low carbon development. The transportation is an important field of carbon emissions reduction. It is a positive significance for promoting the low carbon development in Beijing of combing the transportation and carbon emissions status and analyzing the emission reduction potential on the micro-scale. The development status of transportation from 2001 to 2011 in Beijing was elaborated in the paper,and the carbon emissions caused by energy consumption of transportation from 2005 to 2011 were also calculated. Drawn from the dynamic change of carbon emissions of different kinds of energy consumption,kerosene is the main source of transportation emissions in Beijing. On the perspective of energy using structures,road controlling measures and traffic mode structures,the low,moderate and high emission reduction scenarios are set to analyze the carbon emissions reduction of transportation in Beijing. The results is shown as follows: 1The transportation in Beijing is keeping sustainable development,and the diversified type transportation network is becoming more and more perfect; 2 The carbon emissions of transportation consumption is on the rise,and the main reason is the wide use of kerosene and diesel oil; 3 the carbon emissions can be decreased by changing the energy structure of transportation. Some enlightenments are obtained as follows:1The carbon emissions of transportation has a larger reduction space in the next ten years. Reducing the proportion of kerosene and diesel oil occupied in total energy consumption and increasing the proportion of natural gas and electricity is helpful to reduce the carbon emissions in Beijing;2The marginal effect of car is far greater than other means of transportation on the energy consumption of the whole city traffic system; 3The vehicle purchase lottery system,the traffic restrictions measures and the promotion of new energy vehicle are the necessary policy means to control the rapid growth of car and reduce the energy consumption and the carbon emissions. The public transportation has land-saving,energy-saving and environmental advantages for city development,so the government should vigorously promote public transportation and increase the investment on the public transportation. It will drive more people choose the public transportation so that the goal of energy saving can be achieved.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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