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Record Nr.

UNINA9910647785103321

Autore

Zhao Pengjun

Titolo

Population aging and age-friendly transport in China / / Pengjun Zhao and Jinxin Xie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

981-19-9243-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 pages)

Collana

Population, Regional Development and Transport, , 2662-4621

Disciplina

796.510846

Soggetti

Older people - Transportation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.