Calculating Urban Transportation Emissions - PrivateVehicles: Lessons from existing tools’ development, design and implementation (Oct.2015/Clean Transportation Program)

This report is designed to provide context to iCET's City Transport Emissions Calculator and screen existing transport emissions modeling approaches available in China and abroad, best-practices and limitations for the purpose of measuring urban transport emissions towards more informed clean transportation planning and policy-making. Since private vehicles are argued to have a greater impact on emission reduction than freight transport due to the surge in private car population and its low energy efficiency, the private vehicle segment was chosen to be introduced prior to the public and freight urban on-road segments. The calculator, which will be fruit of this initial work, is meant to be simple to use, include state-of-the-art default values, and be publically available both online and through MoT's clean urban transport planning lab.