Environmental policies and complaints of air pollution inside the public transport interchanges in Hong Kong

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi-wah, Anthony Lo
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals A tale of four cities: A semantic analysis comparing the newspaper coverage of air pollution in Hong Kong, London, Pittsburgh, and Tianjin from 2014 to 2017

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-52
Author(s):  
Tongxin Sun ◽  
Bu Zhong
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Word Count ◽  
The Public ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Linguistic Inquiry

A computer-aided semantic analysis (using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count [LIWC]) examined how newspaper coverage of air pollution from 2014 to 2017 may affect the public agenda in four cities—Hong Kong, London, Pittsburgh, and Tianjin. Results show that after controlling for the real-time air quality, the agenda-setting effect was found in Hong Kong, London, and Pittsburgh, but not Tianjin. Tianjin’s reports also contained more future-framed words but fewer present-framed words than other cities.

Some of the issue connected with the public transport ecology

2018 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 143-153
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Jóźwiak ◽  
Łukasz Guciewski
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Road Vehicles ◽  
The Public ◽  
Emission Standards ◽  
Ecological Aspects

The article presents ecological aspects in road public transport. There were described main sources of smog and the percentage of air pollution (produced by road vehicles) was also showed. Details connected with the Euro emission standards (concerning buses used in public transport) were characterized and types of bus engines were also described. At the end of the article conception of current buses exchange was contained.

Promoting Technological Environmental Innovations

2011 ◽  
pp. 56-73
Author(s):  
Jacqueline C. K. Lam ◽  
Peter Hills
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Environmental Regulations ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Environmental Innovation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Performance Requirements ◽  
And Control

This chapter reviews and discusses the debate over the effectiveness of environmental regulation in promoting industrial Technological Environmental Innovation (TEI). Using the innovation-friendly regulatory principles adapted from Porter and van der Linde (1995a and 1995b), this chapter demonstrates how properly designed and implemented environmental regulation (TEI promoting regulation) has played a critical role in promoting TEI in the transport industry in California and Hong Kong. In both cases, it has been shown that stringent environmental regulations that send clear and strong signals for future environmental performance requirements are critical in promoting TEIs in the public transport industries. Unlike traditional command-and-control regulations, TEI promoting regulations are strongly supported by incentive and capability-enhancing measures.

A Case Study on Hangzhou’s Public Bicycle System in Relieving Pressure on Road Transport

2012 ◽  
Vol 178-181 ◽  
pp. 1951-1955 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Huang ◽  
Ming Xia Shen
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
The Public ◽  
Traffic Jams ◽  
The World ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Process Of Urbanization ◽  
Current Utilization

Abstract. The global economic development facilitates the process of urbanization, during which more private cars are used, resulting in traffic jams and also more air pollution. It is important to provide an energy-saving public transport means in order to relieve pressure on road transport, reduce emission, and even to offer a new alternative of transport to non-local tourists in their traveling, and public bicycles are such a choice. This article investigates into the public bicycle system in Hangzhou, an extension of the existing public transport, analyzes current utilization of public bicycles, problems we have already encountered, well as suggestions and countermeasures for further improvement, in the hope of providing a good example to other cities in the world in their public transport development

LOWERING THE INFLUENCE ON THE ENVIRONMENT - PROJECT OF CHANGING THE BUS FLEET IN GPP OSIJEK

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-51
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Erceg ◽  
Zafer Kilic
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Environmental Influence ◽  
Noise Pollution ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
The Public ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Desk Research

Purpose: Public transport is one of the bigger causes of air pollution, but at the same time use public transport helps in lowering the use of personal transport and with that, it lowers the pollution and influence on the environment. Air pollution is significantly influencing the environment and the public transport companies are looking for different ways to reduce air pollution. Thus, the transport companies need to pay attention to their activities and modernization of the fleet to lower their influence on air pollution. Design/Methodology/Approach: In the writing of this paper we used mainly desk research method for the literature review and case study method for presenting the project of the transport company. Findings and implications: GPP Osijek has started a project of fleet modernization which consists of the purchase of 12 new modern city buses which have a lower influence on the environment regarding air pollution. Besides this company is making additional steps in reducing their influence on the environment and testing hybrid fueled buses. In the next period, authors recommend conducting research on environmental influence regarding air pollution and possibly lowering the noise pollution. Limitations: This paper main limitation is that there are still no results in how much the influence on the environment has been lowered and this should be studied in the future. Originality: This paper presents one of the first research studies about environmental management in public transport companies in Croatia.

Promoting Technological Environmental Innovations

2013 ◽  
pp. 230-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline C. K. Lam ◽  
Peter Hills
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Environmental Regulations ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Environmental Innovation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Performance Requirements ◽  
And Control

This paper reviews and discusses the debate over the effectiveness of environmental regulation in promoting industrial Technological Environmental Innovation (TEI). Using the innovation-friendly regulatory principles adapted from Porter and van der Linde (1995a, 1995b), this paper demonstrates how properly designed and implemented environmental regulation (TEI promoting regulation) has played a critical role in promoting TEI in the transport industry in California and Hong Kong. In both cases, it has shown that stringent environmental regulations that send clear and strong signals for future environmental performance requirements are critical in promoting TEIs in the public transport industries. Unlike traditional command-and-control regulations, TEI promoting regulations are strongly supported by incentive and capability-enhancing measures.

scholarly journals Development of a City Bike System on the Example of the City of Lublin

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacek Caban ◽  
Agnieszka Dudziak
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Transport System ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Basic Data ◽  
Limited Extent ◽  
Noise Levels ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Transport System ◽  
The City

Abstract The insertion of a city bike that complements the public transport system in large agglomerations, and mainly in the most crowded city centers, seems to be a very good solution that can contribute to reducing air pollution and reducing noise levels. In many situations, bicycle transport can perfectly fill deficiencies in public transport, e.g. at night, on holidays and on days when buses run to a limited extent. The article presents the functioning of the city bike system in Lublin since 2014. The first part of this article presents basic data on the city bike system in Lublin together with a map of bicycle stations, followed by data on the number of rentals, rental time, number of bicycle users, etc. Selected user opinions obtained on the basis of the survey were also presented. Finally, based on the analysis, final conclusions were formulated. The city bike system is used by about 10% of the population of the city of Lublin.

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