From the emergence of Chinese carsharing services in 2009 until today, more than 330,000 people signed up for a carsharing membership in China – equivalent to almost one third of the total number of carsharing…
Within the past decade demand for freight and logistic services around Asia has been on a continuous rise. Driven by increasing economic growth and Asia’s ever rising importance as global production hub, this trend does…
Cities need a reliable and comfortable transport system. As a backbone of economic and social development, mobility of people and goods needs to be environmentally friendly. Today, the transport sector is the fastest growing source…
Friday, 29th November 2013 GIZ organised an international exchange workshop between Beijing’s Transport Authorities and international experts on an intended white paper “Opportunities and Challenges for Beijing Transport Development”. The new white paper, issued by…
Not only in China but in all developing countries, the transport sectors share of greenhouse gas emission is growing rapidly. Therefore, this year’s Transport Day, a side event to COP 19 in Warsaw, Poland on…
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…
Between May 15th and May 17th the project working group on the CCICED Special Policy Study on Promoting Urban Green Travel (formerly called Promoting Urban Green Commuting) convened their 4th working meeting. GIZ China Sustainable…
On 20 November 2012, GIZ and the China Automotive Engineering Research Institute (CAERI) jointly organised the Sino-German Workshop on the Assessment of the Energy Consumption of Electric Vehicles together with the International Council on Clean…
Identifying approaches for climate change mitigation scenarios of policies and measure in the Chinese transport sector was the objective of the Scoping Workshop China of the GIZ and CUSTReC on Wednesday, 6th March 2013. In…
The China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) and the European Union started their study on “Promoting Urban Green Commuting” on March 7, 2013. The key objectives of the report are to…