Win-win transportation strategies for India: Linking air pollution and climate mitigation

Dharmala, Nikhilesh; Kholod, Nazar; Chaturvedi, Vaibhav; Ghosh, Probal P.; Mathur, Ritu; Bali, Shikha; Behera, Anshuman; Chamola, S. D.; Clarke, Leon; Evans, Meredydd; Horowitz, Russell; Jain, Aakansha; Koti, Poonam Nagar; Paladugula, Anantha Lakshmi; Qamar, Sharif; Shekhar, Swapnil; Srinivasan, Shweta

doi:10.1016/j.egycc.2022.100072

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“…The research focused on climate change mitigation and social justice issues within the transit network's design, thus examining PTNDP through these lenses. To elaborate, climate change mitigation in public transportation involves reducing vehicular GHG emissions by increasing demand and reliance on public transit [15], which cannot be achieved without addressing the considerations of the PTNDP, such as improving and increasing ridership. With respect to social justice, addressing the PTNDP requires considerations around sufficient and equitable access and the availability of public transportation options, particularly for marginalized groups [16].…”

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Rethinking Public Transit Networks Using Climate Change Mitigation and Social Justice Lenses: Great Victoria Area Case Study

Ghadiri,

Newell

2024

Sustainability

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Public transit has a relatively low GHG-to-passenger ratio and offers affordable options for local travel compared with personal vehicle travel. Investments in an effective public transit network are therefore critical for progress toward climate change mitigation and social justice. Using the Greater Victoria Area (GVA) in British Columbia, Canada, as a case study, this research identified, mapped, and examined three new regional transit network scenarios, which, respectively, align with the objectives in the planning and policy areas of (1) climate change mitigation, (2) social justice, and (3) climate justice. The methods involved a literature review to develop an analytical framework for mapping and examining new transit networks using the climate change mitigation, social justice, and climate justice lenses. The framework was revised through a research practitioner workshop, and it was then applied using network analysis techniques to (re)map the GVA’s transit networks under the three scenarios. The key outcomes of the project included an analytical framework and a process for analyzing and remapping transit networks in ways that align with climate and social justice objectives. The findings indicated the need to add some bus routes and stops, especially in the northern part of the GVA, and two new fast transit networks according to the justice lenses.

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Rethinking Public Transit Networks Using Climate Change Mitigation and Social Justice Lenses: Great Victoria Area Case Study

Ghadiri,

Newell

2024

Sustainability

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“…It even directly determines the direction and scale of urban expansion [ 5 ]. However, the sustainability of regional development becomes fragile due to such problems as food security (loss of cultivated land) [ 6 ], biodiversity reduction (loss of ecological land) [ 7 ], traffic congestion [ 8 ], increased energy consumption [ 9 ], and intensified pollutant emission [ 10 , 11 ] brought about by urban expansion. Since the reforms in China and the opening up of the country starting in 1978, the rapid construction of China’s traffic network has greatly optimized the circumstances for the development and utilization of its territory, strongly supporting the rapid and steady growth of China’s economy, and speeding up the process of urbanization over the past 30 years [ 12 ].…”

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Impact of Accessibility to Cities at Multiple Administrative Levels on Soil Conservation: A Case Study of Hunan Province

Dai

Wang

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IJERPH

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The development of traffic infrastructure involves massive land use changes along the transportation routes and stimulates urban sprawl at transfer nodes, leading to a degradation in ecosystem services, including soil conservation. For developing countries, especially for China, it is very important to differentiate the influences between different standards of traffic infrastructure associated with the different administrative levels of the regions where they are constructed on soil conservation. In this study, we attempt to analyze the differences in the influence of accessibility at different levels on soil conservation, for the case study area in Hunan province in China. The results indicate that: (1) traffic conditions in Hunan province have witnessed continuous improvement, and the time taken to access mega-cities, prefecture-level cities, and county-level cities from various regions has been significantly reduced. (2) The total annual soil conservation in Hunan province is maintained at approximately 2.93 × 109 t. However, the spatial heterogeneity shows severe degradation in regions with lower accessibility, and weak enhancement in regions with higher accessibility. (3) A negative spatial autocorrelationship exists between accessibility and soil conservation at all levels, with the increase of administrative rank of the destination making it more obvious and intense, along with an increased tendency for the spatial distribution to concentrate. (4) Building more railways and highways from prefecture-level cities with LH clusters nearby as transfer nodes, instead of the construction of national roads and provincial roads that diverge from these railways and highways, will help limit the massive expansion of construction land and soil erosion within prefecture-level cities, rather than spreading to towns of LH clusters. This research provides an important scientific basis for future regional planning and traffic infrastructure construction, and also a reference for traffic infrastructure development in other geographically similar regions on a synchronous development stage in the world.

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Charting a sustainable future: Transformative policies for India's energy, agriculture, and transport sectors

Saranga,

Roy,

Chowdhury

2024

IIMB Management Review

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Win-win transportation strategies for India: Linking air pollution and climate mitigation

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

Rethinking Public Transit Networks Using Climate Change Mitigation and Social Justice Lenses: Great Victoria Area Case Study

Rethinking Public Transit Networks Using Climate Change Mitigation and Social Justice Lenses: Great Victoria Area Case Study

Impact of Accessibility to Cities at Multiple Administrative Levels on Soil Conservation: A Case Study of Hunan Province

Charting a sustainable future: Transformative policies for India's energy, agriculture, and transport sectors

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