Study on the Impact of CO_2 Emission Depending on Change of the Urban Structure: Case Study of Khon Kaen, Thailand

摘要

To realize the Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) in a developing city, the long-run policy including not only introduction of public transport but also effective land-use plan such as Transit Oriented Development (TOD), compact city, etc. as well as technological innovation for vehicles and introduction of renewable energy should be established and evaluated in terms of energy consumption structure and modal share. Thus, in this study, the relationships between urban structure and travel activities based on available transportation mode such as Vehicle Kilometers Travel (VKT), travel distance, etc. were defined and simulated the impacts of such relationships on changing the urban structure and carbon dioxide (CO_2) emission dynamically by using the system dynamics model. As the result of simulation, CO_2 emission were obtained in long term and impacts of each scenarios were estimated.