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Title
Transport efficiency and safety in China / Pengjun Zhao, Liangen Zeng.
ISBN
9789819910557 (electronic bk.)
9819910552 (electronic bk.)
9789819910540
9819910544
Published
Singapore : Springer, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 354 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-99-1055-7 doi
Call Number
HE278.A2
Dewey Decimal Classification
380.50951
Summary
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of transport efficiency in China. It presents a series of rigorous empirical analysis for the operation and environmental efficiencies of major transport sectors, including highway, railway, civil aviation, and waterway. It also evaluates transport safety of China. The book innovatively employs a DEA model based on Epsilon measures (EBM) to evaluate transport efficiency and an EBM DEA model with undesirable outputs to calculate transport environmental efficiency. The factors of transport efficiency are quantitatively studied, including economic growth, social transition, and technology changes. Also, China's policies aimed at improving transportation efficiency are evaluated. The theoretical analyses and discussions would enhance our existing knowledge of the changes and determinants of transport systems efficiency in a context of rapid urbanization, industrialization, and marketization in China. The findings of the existing policy evaluation would bring fresh evidences for transport policy performances to both scholars and politicians. In particular, it shows policymakers the experiences or lessons of how to create an efficient transport system in order to save energy use, reduce GHGs emissions, and improve social security. This book is of great interest to scholars interested in sustainable transport, regional planning and development, environmental policy and is relevant to China and other developing countries. .
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 19, 2023).
Series
Population, regional development and transport.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9789819910540