Population Aging and Age-Friendly Transport in China
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book is the first book that investigates aging and its impacts on transport system in China. Using various data, this book covers, but is not limited to, the development of population aging, the changes of travel demand, the features of travel behavior...
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This book is the first book that investigates aging and its impacts on transport system in China. Using various data, this book covers, but is not limited to, the development of population aging, the changes of travel demand, the features of travel behavior of China's elderly, progress and prospect of age-friendly transport in China. The book has international academic novelty in three points. Firstly, it discovers the long-term supply-demand relationship between population aging and transport infrastructure development. Secondly, it finds the changes and factors in travel behavior of the elderly people. Thirdly, it discusses the advantages or disadvantages of age-friendly transport policy. The findings in the book provide fresh evidences for the challenges posed by aging to transport and enhance readers' existing knowledge of the elderly people's travel behavior and the related determinants. These findings are helpful for planners and politicians to make age-friendly transport policies and useful for investors and enterprises to supply proper transport services to the elderly people. This book is of great interest to scholars and practitioners interested in transport development, transport policy, social transition, sustainable mobility, urban planning, urban governance and is relevant to China and other developing countries.Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Population Aging and Age-Friendly Transport in China “
Introduction.- Aging: a global challenge.- Aging and transport.- Progress and problems with age-friendly transport policies in China.- Aging in China.- Travel needs of elderly people.- Travel behavior of elderly people.- Factors in the travel behavior of elderly people.- Building age-friendly transport in China.- Conclusion and outlook.
Autoren-Porträt von Pengjun Zhao, Jinxin Xie
Prof. Pengjun Zhao obtained his Ph.D. degree in Spatial Planning at University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is now Editor-in-Chief of Cities (Elsevier), Vice Chair of the Commission on Transport and Geography of the IGU (International Geography Union) and Guest Professor in the Department of Land Economy at University of Cambridge. He is Full Professor and Dean in School of Urban Planning and Design at Peking University. His research mostly focuses on urban and transport planning, transport geography and sustainable mobility. Jinxin Xie is Researcher in the Centre for Urban Planning and Transport Studies at Peking University. Her researches mostly focus on age-friendly transportation, urban-rural integration and urban planning.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Pengjun Zhao , Jinxin Xie
- 2024, 1st ed. 2022, XI, 257 Seiten, 133 farbige Abbildungen, Maße: 15,5 x 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 9811992452
- ISBN-13: 9789811992452
Sprache:
Englisch
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