Research On Carbon Emissions From Metropolis Urban Passenger Transport and Countermeasures
Based on the comparative analysis of existing CO2 emissions estimation methods, this paper, taking Shanghai as an example, estimates the CO2 emissions of urban passenger transport with IPCC "bottom to up" method. The results show that urban rail transit has the highest efficiency of carbon emissions while taxi the last; CO2 emissions from urban passenger transport grows fast and its structure has changed a lot; in recent years, the increment of CO2 emissions is mainly caused by the private automobile; CO2 emissions from official transport has always been occupying a certain proportion in total. Therefore, the paper indicates that the key of controlling CO2 emissions is the management of individual traffic which mainly contains private and officinal cars, and forming a kind of traffic structure dominated by public transportation. In order to take the control of CO2 emissions as one of the policy objectives, the impacts of transport policy on CO2 emissions are deeply analyzed. And conclusions are that there is no significant beneficial function produced by traffic supply policy and demand management policy on CO2 emissions control; considering the implementation effect of the spatial development policy, it is not conducive to lower the level of the residents travel carbon emissions. Finally, several suggestions are given to achieve the objective of controlling the CO2 emissions from the aspects of traffic supply, demand management and urban spatial structure.