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The Role Of Trolley Bus Traffic In The Sustainable Development Of Megapolis

Posted on:2009-12-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q L LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2132360272983277Subject:Transportation planning and management
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In recent years, with the accelerated process of urbanization, the traffic problems have become the focus of the community, especially traffic congestion, pollution, energy issue in mega polis has become the important factors that constrains development of social and economic and the improvement of people's life. To ensure sustainable development of urban transport, the whole world is trying to find the"green"manner that more energy-saving, environmentally friendly. And in the goal to encourage the development of public transport and pursuit of green traffic, the trolley buses have been studied and paid attention once again.On the basis of the studying and analysis on about the historical development and the status quo of trolley bus in megapolis in domestic and international, how to develop trolley bus is analyzed comprehensively.Firstly, the inevitability that the trolley bua gets a sustainable development in major cities is pointed out,the analysis of the development history of trolley bus and its traffic status quo in domestic and abroad;Secondly,the requirements of traffic sustainable development is discussed,and the trolley bus is confirmed as one of public transports that accord with the requirements of sustainable development of traffic.Then,it is confirmed that the appropriate development of trolley bus is an effective measure to ensure sustainable development of urban transport form the three aspects-the sustainable development of traffic,economic and social.The weak strong(SWOT) analysis is used to analyze the development of trolley bus,and trolley bus as one of most effective public transports is proved to accord with the requirements of sustainable development of traffic. And with the current status quo of the trolley buses traffic, the trolley bus traffic optimization is pointed out form a number of aspects.Finally, taking an example of Xi'an, the status of the trolley bus is analyed, and the feasibility of the development appropriately of trolley bus in the future in megapolis is demonstrated.It has laid a good foundation to the development of trolley buses in Xi'an.
Keywords/Search Tags:urban traffic, trolley bus, sustainable development, SWOT analysis, green traffic
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