Integrated urban transport and land-use policies in reducing CO₂ emissions and energy consumption: case study of a medium-sized city in Thailand
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2024
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Chindaprasirt, P.
Klungboonkrong, P.
Jaensirisak, S.
Faiboun, N.
Long, S.
Tippichai, A.
Taylor, M.A.P.
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World Electric Vehicle Journal, 2024; 15(8):1-19
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In developing cities, transport activities have become one of the primary sources of CO₂ emissions and energy consumption owing to rapid economic growth, urbanization, and motorization. Khon Kaen City, Thailand, was chosen as a representative mid-sized city of a developing country to investigate the potential influences of transit-oriented development (TOD), light rail transit (LRT), and electric vehicle (EV) policy integration scenarios on CO₂ emission and energy consumption reductions in 2016, 2026, and 2046. The TOD did not significantly reduce CO₂ emissions or energy consumption because it was only applied in one area of the city. The LRT development also had a small effect because of the small proportion of modal shifts to LRT. However, EV utilization offered the greatest potential for reducing both CO₂ emissions and energy consumption. In addition, the integrated scenario combining the three policies had a promising effect, diminishing both CO₂ emissions and energy consumption, because it gathered the potential merits and benefits of each individual policy.
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Copyright 2024 The Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)