Journal
APPLIED ENERGY
Volume 191, Issue -, Pages 141-152Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.01.052
Keywords
Ridesharing; Direct impacts; Indirect impacts; Energy saving; Emission reduction; Beijing
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Funding
- China's National Key RD Program [2016YFA0602603]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71521002, 71603020, 71642004, 71372018]
- Joint Development Program of Beijing Municipal Commission of Education
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Emerging ridesharing travel could be an effective way in China to reduce travel demand by cars, which can further seek to shift personal transportation choices from an owned asset to a service used on demand and lessen the traffic jam and emissions. Drawing on the raw observed ridesharing trip data provided by DiDi Chuxing company, this study evaluated the direct environmental benefits of ridesharing resulted from the travel mode shift and the indirect environmental benefits resulted from the attitude change towards car purchase behavior. The megacity Beijing is taken as the empirical context given its more serious situation of traffic congestion and difficulties for car purchase. Estimation results show that direct annual energy savings made by ridesharing are approximately 26.6 thousand tce, and annual emission reductions of CO2 and NOx are approximately 46.2 thousand tons and 253.7 tons, respectively. Besides, using ridesharing service will lead to substantial energy savings and emission reductions from the long-term perspective attributing to the weakening willingness on purchasing new cars. Promoting EVs among ridesharing vehicles and switching to clean electricity generation as well as improving vehicle efficiency can further enhance the environmental benefits of ridesharing, with maximum effects amounting to 67% of energy savings and 57% of CO2 emission reductions compared to 2016 level of the fuel related energy consumption and emissions made by ridesharing. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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