Sustainable Air Pollution Management in Transportation Sector

Author(s):  
Ramesha Chandrappa ◽  
Umesh Chandra Kulshrestha
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuehui Zhang ◽  
Zhidong Tan ◽  
Bao-Guang Chang ◽  
Kam C. Chan

In February 2017 China began to require the regional coordination of four ministries and 28 cities surrounding Beijing to manage air pollution. The Coordination attempts to unify air pollution standards and implements various new methods to monitor air pollution. Leveraging the natural experiment and using a difference-in-differences research design, we note that firms located in the treatment cities invest more in the environment than those in the control cities. In addition, we find that non-state-owned firms (non-SOEs) respond more strongly than SOEs. The findings remain qualitatively the same after accounting for selection bias in the cities included in the Coordination. Most importantly, air quality improves for treatment cities after the implementation of the Coordination. Our findings offer lessons to other emerging markets for implementing their air pollution management programs. Specifically, we sharpen our knowledge of the administrative management needed to improve coordination among government agencies and local officials in the management of air pollution and suggest that the government can play an active role in enhancing air pollution management.


Author(s):  
Daroonwan Kamthonkiat ◽  
Juthasinee Thanyapraneedkul ◽  
Nithima Nuengjumnong ◽  
Sarawut Ninsawat ◽  
Kessinee Unapumnuk ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 389-409
Author(s):  
Shanjun Li ◽  
Jianwei Xing ◽  
Lin Yang ◽  
Fan Zhang

In urban areas around the world, increasing motorization and growing travel demand make the urban transportation sector an ever-greater contributor to local air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. The situation is particularly acute in developing countries, where growing metropolitan regions suffer some of the world's highest levels of air pollution. Policies that seek to develop and manage this transportation sector—both to meet rising demand linked to economic growth and to safeguard the environment and human health—have had strikingly different results, with some inadvertently exacerbating the traffic and pollution they seek to mitigate. This review summarizes findings in the recent literature on the impacts of a host of urban transportation policies used in both developed- and developing-country settings. The article identifies research challenges and future areas of study regarding transportation policies, which can have important, long-lasting impacts on urban life and global climate change.


1997 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.W. Cooper ◽  
H. Hemphill ◽  
Z. Huang ◽  
S. Li ◽  
V. Lelas ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Seunghwan Myeong ◽  
Khurram Shahzad

Air pollution contributes to a critical environmental problem in various towns and cities. With the emergence of the smart cities concept, appropriate methods to curb associated with exposure to pollutants must have been a portion of appropriate urban development policy. This study presents a technologically driven air quality solution in smart cities to advertise energy-efficient and cleaner sequestration in these areas. It aims to address the issue of how to integrate the data-based strategies and artificial intelligence into efficient public sector pollution management in smart cities as a core part of the smart city definition. Exploratory research has been used in 152 smart cities, and environmental experts contributed to this study. It further addresses the technical criteria for implementing such a framework that the public administration uses to prepare the renovation of public buildings, minimize energy use and costs, and link these smart police stations to monitor air pollution as a part of integrated cities. Such a digital transition in resource management will increase public governance's energy performance, a higher standard of operation, and a healthier environment.


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