Rapidly increasing transportation energy use in China poses challenges to national energy
security and the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, the development of …

This thesis explores the impacts of neighborhood form and location on household
transportation energy use in the context of Jinan, China. From a theoretical perspective …

China and the rest of the world are facing the challenge of meeting energy demand
sustainably. Household-level energy consumption is a large ultimate driving force of a …

The built environment of cities has increasingly affected the travel mode of residents and led
to changes in energy consumption, which is crucial to maintaining urban sustainability …

The energy consumed by urban transportation systems has implications for local
environmental protection and greenhouse gas emission reductions. It is widely claimed that …

Policies that encourage mixed land use are widely believed to make transport more energy
efficient. However, few studies have directly examined the impacts of land-use heterogeneity …

Over the last 20 years, energy consumption in the residential sector in China has grown
rapidly, and the growth is faster than that of any other energy form. To assess the limitations …

The increasing threat of transportation energy insecurity, environmental issues and public
health issues have led to a growing body of research that looks at the potential contribution …

Household energy consumption comes from both in-home and out-of-home activities (ie, in
both the passenger transport and domestic sectors), which may not be independent of each …

From a systems perspective, the energy needed for urban mobility is fundamentally
influenced by the design of a city, its urban form—the spatial layout, transport infrastructure …