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Transport-land use systems of sustainable London city

Shifeng Wang, Sicong Wang, Hui Wang

Article ID: 2379
Vol 4, Issue 1, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54517/ec.v4i1.2379
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Abstract

Transportation and land use are interrelated and should be investigated simultaneously for sustainable urban. This paper investigates the interaction between transport and land-use systems using TRANUS model, to support the sustainable development of the London city, provide implicative information for London Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS), and reduce transport energy use and CO₂ emissions. Three infrastructure improvements scenarios for 2025 for MTS are examined. Results show that the trips will increase from 2012 to 2025 by over 1 million. High-occupancy car, bike, rail and tube are still the main transit, and CrossRail will be increasingly recognized. The transport energy use in 2025 high scenario is the smallest compared to 2025 baseline and low scenario. The transport CO₂ emissions show difference for these three 2025 scenarios, with low and high scenarios having smaller transport CO₂ emissions than baseline. These have informative implications for UK national infrastructure plans, and suggest that accounting environmental benefits of infrastructures will contribute to reduce the underinvestment in infrastructure.

Keywords

energy; transport; urban sustainability; infrastructure; CO2 emissions

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