Transport Efficiency and Safety in China

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 system's 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. 

Prof. Pengjun Zhao obtained his PhD degree in Spatial Planning at University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is now Editor-in-Chief of Cities, the Vice Chair of the Commission on Transport and Geography of the IGU (International Geography Union), and Guest Professor of Department of Land Economy at University of Cambridge. He is Full Professor and Dean of School of Urban Planning and Design of Peking University. His research mostly focuses on urban and transport planning, transport geography, and sustainable mobility.

Liangen Zeng is PhD Researcher in the Centre for Urban Planning and Transport Studies of Peking University. His research mostly focuses on sustainable transport and spatial planning. He published several papers in authoritative SCI/SSCI journals, such as Science of the Total Environment, Energy, Energies, and so on.