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Nonlinear relationship between urban form and transport CO2 emissions:Evidence from Chinese cities based on machine learning

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Reducing carbon emissions from the transport sector is essential for realizing the carbon neutrality goal in China.Despite substantial studies on the influence of urban form on transport CO2 emissions,most of them have treated the effects as a linear process,and few have studied their nonlinear relationships.This research focused on 274 Chinese cities in 2019 and applied the gradient-boosting decision tree(GBDT)model to investigate the non-linear effects of four aspects of urban form,including compactness,complexity,scale,and fragmentation,on urban transport CO2 emissions.It was found that urban form contributed 20.48%to per capita transport CO2 emissions(PTCEs),which is less than the contribution of socioeconomic development but more than that of transport infrastructure.The contribution of urban form to total transport CO2 emissions(TCEs)was the lowest,at 14.3%.In particular,the effect of compactness on TCEs was negative within a threshold,while its effect on PTCEs showed an inverted U-shaped relationship.The effect of complexity on PTCEs was positive,and its effect on TCEs was nonlinear.The effect of scale on TCEs and PTCEs was positive within a threshold and negative beyond that threshold.The effect of fragmentation on TCEs was also nonlinear,while its effect on PTCEs was positively linear.These results show the complex effects of the urban form on transport CO2 emissions.Thus,strategies for optimizing urban form and reducing urban transport carbon emissions are recommended for the future.

urban formtransport CO2 emissionsnonlinear effectsustainable transportgradient-boosting deci-sion tree model

LI Linna、DENG Zilin、HUANG Xiaoyan

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Faculty of Geographical Science,Beijing Normal University,Beijing 100875,China

Northwest Land and Resources Research Center,Global Regional and Urban Research Institute,Shaanxi Normal University,Xi'an 710119,China

National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China

4207122742371214

2024

地理学报(英文版)
中国地理学会,中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所

地理学报(英文版)

CSTPCD
影响因子:1.307
ISSN:1009-637X
年,卷(期):2024.34(8)
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