On days of continuous and serious air pollution, 80 percent of public vehicles and half of private cars will be banned from Beijing’s roads, the city’s government said on Thursday according to a report of…
Gaining plausible knowledge on travel demand data is crucial factor for the calculation of transportation-related energy consumption and GHG emissions. However, the level of understanding of travel demand related issues in China is relatively limited…
From 7th until 13th of September, Prof. Dr. Matthias Finkbeiner visited China invited by GIZ for a lecture series on “Life Cycle Assessment in the Automotive Industry – Status Quo and Perspectives”. Matthias Finkbeiner is…
Cycling has positive impacts on the environment and the climate, as a flexible transport mode it can help to tackle many current and future transport problems and raise the quality of life in cities and…
As part of their green logistics project GIZ jointly organized a study tour for Chinese government officials to Germany with the Chinese Ministry of Transport in July 2013. The aim of this study tour was…
On September 12, China’s National Action Plan on Air Pollution Control was published by the State Council. It was released just 10 days after Beijing’s Clean Air Action Plan. The National Plan aims to improve…
On Monday, September 2, the municipal government of Beijing rolled out a set of new measures to limit industrial and traffic pollution as central part of the efforts to clean up the city’s air. The…
Sustainable urban transport (SUT) systems are urgently needed in developing and emerging economies world-wide. Fast rates of motorisation, especially increases in private car ownership and travel have already turned congestion, air pollution and noise into…
A recently published article in China Daily said that ”In the next two years, the city will need a great number of parking spaces for at least 2.5 million cars, according to a joint analysis…
Quantification of transport related emissions is one of the key requirements in the effort to control GHG-emissions and pollutants in any form. The report GHG Reporting and Inventorying in Germany – Assessing transport related emissions …