By Li Hanqing, Institute of Market Economy, DRC

Research Report, No.59, 2021 (Total 6124) 2021-3-18

Abstract: Since the turn of the 21st century, China has achieved rapid development in terms of its urban road length and per capita space. With urban transportation infrastructure serving as the chassis underpinning the development of cities, the travel time and distance have both been shortened for accelerating the flow of productive factors and expanding the development space for urban agglomerations. However, efforts are still needed to improve China’s urban transportation infrastructure development plan in line with urban functional layout, further adjust urban transportation structure and enhance urban logistics management. As one of the new business forms and new modes, shared mobility industry needs to be promoted in light of its improper supervision and, in addition, corresponding institutional mechanism needs to be further innovated. During the 14th Five-Year-Plan period, the construction of urban transportation system needs to be enhanced by strengthening the demand-side management, accelerating the structural adjustment of urban transportation, prioritizing public transportation development, encouraging shared mobility and fostering a low-speed transportation system so as to establish a multi-level urban transportation system with an integrated public transportation, shared mobility and low-speed system as the mainstay and push ahead with the construction of new-type smart transportation infrastructure with the aim of developing urban transportation in a safer, convenient, efficient, greener and economic fashion.

Keywords: urban transportation, shared mobility, mobility as a service (MaaS)