Population Aging and Age-Friendly Transport in China

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.

Uncovers the effects of aging on transport infrastructure investments and services supply in China Investigates the characteristics of travel demand and daily travel behavior of elderly people across China Evaluates and discusses the age-friendly transport policies of China

Autorentext

Prof. Pengjun Zhao obtained his PhD degree in Spatial Planning at University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is now the Editor-in-Chief of Cities (Elsevier, IF 5.8), the Vice Chair of the Commission on Transport and Geography of the IGU (International Geography Union), and Senior Departmental Fellow of Department of Land Economy at University of Cambridge. He is a Full Professor and the Dean of School of Urban Planning and Design of Peking University. His research mostly focuses on urban and transport planning, transport geography, and sustainable mobility. Prof. Di Lyu obtained PhD degree at Peking University. Her Ph.D. topic and career have been involved with the transportation policy evaluation and simulation, urban and rural spatial governance based on big data, Since July 2021 she has been an assistant research fellow of Shenzhen Graduate School of Peking University.

Inhalt
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.