China.Beijing Sustainable Urban Transport

The proposed TA is intended to support the BMG in finding suitable and sustainable solutions to its urban transport problems. In so doing, the TA will directly support the emerging urban transport priorities of the PRC s Twelfth Five-Year Plan, 2011 2015 and ADB s country partnership strategy. It is also aligned with the pillars of ADB s Strategy 2020, focusing on inclusive and environmentally sustainable growth. The TA addresses one of the focus areas of ADB s Sustainable Transport Initiative Operational Plan.

Three main types of strategy options will be examined: (i) TDM strategies including (a) past strategies such as restricting vehicle ownership and usage, and parking pricing; and (b) potential new strategies such as charging schemes including congestion pricing, fuel pricing, distance-based pricing, and fee and rebate schemes; (ii) infrastructure improvement strategies, based on a review of Beijing s transport infrastructure development plans and identification of strategy options with potential to contribute to a more sustainable balance between private vehicles, public transport, and nonmotorized transport, including metro development and bus priority lanes; and (iii) traffic operation improvement strategies, based on a study of the relationship between Beijing s road network structure and traffic congestion, and identification of promising improvement options such as on-ramp and off-ramp metering during peak hours.

Asian Development Bank.Project Number 45026- 01.

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China.Hubei Xiangyang Urban Transport Project

China's dramatic economic growth over the past twenty years has been accompanied by unprecedented urbanization. The urban population has increased from less than 25 percent of the total in1985 to 46.5 percent in 2009. The Government expects 20 million people to migrate from the countryside to urban areas each year for the next 20 years. Rapid growth in urban areas combined with a restructuring of the economy has led to large and growing urban transport challenges.

Economic growth and urbanization have not occurred uniformly: a number of coastal cities and major regional economic centers (often the provincial capitals) have absorbed a large percentage of economic and urban growth, while smaller cities in the hinterland have developed more slowly.

In recent years, however, urban growth has picked up Western China, and many inland cities have started facing many of the challenges that major coastal city centers (e.g., Beijng, Shanghai) had experienced in the earlier phases of their rapid development. The most notable challenge is a rapid rise in motorization rates leading to increased congestion, deteriorated performance of public transport service, degraded air quality, and rising traffic accidents and fatalities.

World Bank. Author. Fang,Ke. Document Date 2011/11/22.Document Type: Project Information Document. Report Number: PIDA99. Country: China.Disclosure Date. 2011/11/22. Doc Name.Project Information Document (Appraisal Stage). Hubei Xiangyang Urban Transport.P119071. Language English. Rel.Proj ID. CN-Hubei Xiangyang Urban Transport. P119071

 

Project Information Document (Appraisal Stage). Hubei Xiangyang Urban Transport. P119071

China: urban accessibility planning support systems with a case study in Wuhan

Increasing accessibility bringing people, opportunities and goods within easy reach of each other has always been the fundamental role of cities. In the past, policy makers often analyzed the transport system using metrics that focused on mobility the ease of movement in a city. The most prominent of these metrics is congestion, often expressed as the ratio of road speeds between congested and uncongested conditions.

A recent Brookings Institution report on accessibility aptly summarizes the shortcomings of this metric in analyzing the performance of the urban transport-land use system. Clearly, using mobility metrics that focus on travel speeds alone tends to exclude a crucial component of urban system dynamics the interactions between the land use functions and the transport systems in a city. Several policy scenarios along these lines of particular pertinence for the pilot city of Wuhan were analyzed as part of this study.

Accessibility metrics that consider both the ease of movement on the transport system and the corresponding number of destinations reached are not entirely new. This project is the latest in a series of research efforts that the Bank has supported in recent years that focus on measuring accessibility in Chinese cities. First, the World Bank supported analytical work that compares pedestrian access to jobs and commercial opportunities in the central business districts of Beijing, London and New York. This document is a brief summary of the latest work completed in this series.

The document provides a description of a pilot project in Wuhan, China to demonstrate the value of accessibility metrics in the urban planning decision making process, including a description of the tools used and policy lessons generated. The primary purpose of the exercise was to demonstrate the practical applications of these tools for use in understanding transport/land use dynamics in World Bank client cities.

World Bank.Document Date 2011/11/16. Document Type ESMAP Paper.Report Number 65620. Volume No 1 of 1

Urban accessibility planning support systems with a case study in Wuhan, China

China Changzhi Sustainable Urban Transport Project

Strong economic growth has been accompanied by unprecedented rapid urbanization in China over the past 20 years. The share of urban population has increased from 26 percent in 1990 to nearly 50 percent in 2010, and the number of urban population is expected to increase from 622 million today to nearly 1 billion by 2030.

With continuing urbanization, municipal governments face a major challenge to ensure that urban development is achieved in a sustainable manner. This requires municipal governments to ensure efficient utilization of natural, financial, and human resources, mitigation of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, development of collaborative institutional management structures, implementation of policies conducive t sustainable government and business practices, and sustainable development of urban land use and integrated multi-modal urban transport systems.

World Bank. Author Liu,Zhi. Document Date 2011/11/17.Document Type Project Information Document. Report Number PIDA89

Project Information Document (Appraisal Stage)-Changzhi Sustainable Urban Transport Project-P124978

China.Hubei Xiangyang Urban Transport Project: environmental assessment

This Hubei Xiangfan Urban Transport Project aims to establish a complete traffic network system in Panggong Subdistrict, promote the development of this district, and improve the public transport system in Xiangyang city, enhance the capability of traffic management organizations and improve traffic control.

Negative impacts include: impacts on social environment through implementing relevant policies, impacts of the project construction on social environment, influence ambient air quality, influences on surrounding residents, schools and hospitals, pollutions from construction activity are discharged into surface water body, influence on health, and influence on the fauna and flora.

Mitigation measures include: 1) strictly control the working area of construction and avoid widening the construction site without authorization; 2) install the separating wall around the construction site; 3) it is required to prepare one watering car at least for each construction site. The spraying frequency will be determined according to the weather condition; 4) low-noise mechanical equipments or equipments with sound insulation or sound reduction should be selected; 5) during the periods of college and high school entrance examination, it is forbidden to take out the construction around schools; 6) it is prohibited to allow the construction activity inside the bank of Hanjiang River; and 7) domestic waste should be stored at fixed points, daily cleaned up

CN-Hubei Xiangyang Urban Transport -- P119071; Document Date.2011/11/01.Document Type:Environmental Assessment.Report Number E2868

China.Hubei Xiangyang Urban Transport Project: environmental assessment (Vol. 3 of 3): Environmental management plan