Population aging and age-friendly transport in China / Pengjun Zhao, Jinxin Xie.
2022
HQ1063.5
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Title
Population aging and age-friendly transport in China / Pengjun Zhao, Jinxin Xie.
Author
Zhao, Pengjun, author.
ISBN
9789811992438 (electronic bk.)
9811992436 (electronic bk.)
9789811992421
9811992436 (electronic bk.)
9789811992421
Published
Singapore : Springer, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 257 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-19-9243-8 doi
Call Number
HQ1063.5
Dewey Decimal Classification
354.760951
Summary
This book is the first book that investigates aging and its impacts on transport system in China. Using various data, this book covers, but is not limited to, the development of population aging, the changes of travel demand, the features of travel behavior of China's elderly, progress and prospect of age-friendly transport in China. The book has international academic novelty in three points. Firstly, it discovers the long-term supply-demand relationship between population aging and transport infrastructure development. Secondly, it finds the changes and factors in travel behavior of the elderly people. Thirdly, it discusses the advantages or disadvantages of age-friendly transport policy. The findings in the book provide fresh evidences for the challenges posed by aging to transport and enhance readers' existing knowledge of the elderly people's travel behavior and the related determinants. These findings are helpful for planners and politicians to make age-friendly transport policies and useful for investors and enterprises to supply proper transport services to the elderly people. This book is of great interest to scholars and practitioners interested in transport development, transport policy, social transition, sustainable mobility, urban planning, urban governance and is relevant to China and other developing countries.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 7, 2023).
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Xie, Jinxin, author.
Series
Population, regional development and transport. 2662-4621
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Aging: a global challenge
Aging and transport
Progress and problems with age-friendly transport policies in China
Aging in China
Travel needs of elderly people
Travel behavior of elderly people
Factors in the travel behavior of elderly people
Building age-friendly transport in China
Conclusion and outlook.
Aging: a global challenge
Aging and transport
Progress and problems with age-friendly transport policies in China
Aging in China
Travel needs of elderly people
Travel behavior of elderly people
Factors in the travel behavior of elderly people
Building age-friendly transport in China
Conclusion and outlook.