Transit-oriented development and air quality in Chinese cities: A city-level examination
In this paper, we aim to see whether transit-oriented development (TOD) in Chinese cities is associated with better air quality. We first identify 37 Chinese cities with existing urban rail transit and/or bus rapid transit (BRT) systems. For each of these cities we generate performance-based TOD ind...
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| author | Gu, Peiqin He, Dongxu Chen, Yulin Zegras, Pericles C Jiang, Yang |
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| description | In this paper, we aim to see whether transit-oriented development (TOD) in Chinese cities is associated with better air quality. We first identify 37 Chinese cities with existing urban rail transit and/or bus rapid transit (BRT) systems. For each of these cities we generate performance-based TOD indicators – including measures such as urban area coverage, population coverage, street network density and land use mix within station catchment areas – and construct composite TOD indices for each city using those indicators. We also collect daily air quality index (AQI) data from the Ministry of Environmental Protection of China over the entire year 2014 for 152 cities and calculate annual and seasonal average AQIs for each city. Regression models provide some evidence that rail-based TOD is associated with better air quality, after controlling for meteorological, demographic and economic characteristics. BRT-based TOD shows no significant relationship. Keywords: Transit-oriented development; Air quality; City level; China |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1240272022-09-27T22:52:44Z Transit-oriented development and air quality in Chinese cities: A city-level examination Gu, Peiqin He, Dongxu Chen, Yulin Zegras, Pericles C Jiang, Yang Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning In this paper, we aim to see whether transit-oriented development (TOD) in Chinese cities is associated with better air quality. We first identify 37 Chinese cities with existing urban rail transit and/or bus rapid transit (BRT) systems. For each of these cities we generate performance-based TOD indicators – including measures such as urban area coverage, population coverage, street network density and land use mix within station catchment areas – and construct composite TOD indices for each city using those indicators. We also collect daily air quality index (AQI) data from the Ministry of Environmental Protection of China over the entire year 2014 for 152 cities and calculate annual and seasonal average AQIs for each city. Regression models provide some evidence that rail-based TOD is associated with better air quality, after controlling for meteorological, demographic and economic characteristics. BRT-based TOD shows no significant relationship. Keywords: Transit-oriented development; Air quality; City level; China 2020-03-09T13:58:43Z 2020-03-09T13:58:43Z 2019-03 2018-03 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1361-9209 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124027 Gu, Peiqin et al. "Transit-oriented development and air quality in Chinese cities: A city-level examination." Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 68 (March 2019): 10-25 © 2018 Elsevier Ltd http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2018.03.009 Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document application/pdf Elsevier BV Prof. Zegras |
| spellingShingle | Gu, Peiqin He, Dongxu Chen, Yulin Zegras, Pericles C Jiang, Yang Transit-oriented development and air quality in Chinese cities: A city-level examination |
| title | Transit-oriented development and air quality in Chinese cities: A city-level examination |
| title_full | Transit-oriented development and air quality in Chinese cities: A city-level examination |
| title_fullStr | Transit-oriented development and air quality in Chinese cities: A city-level examination |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transit-oriented development and air quality in Chinese cities: A city-level examination |
| title_short | Transit-oriented development and air quality in Chinese cities: A city-level examination |
| title_sort | transit oriented development and air quality in chinese cities a city level examination |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124027 |
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