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Population Aging and Age-Friendly Transport in China

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Authors:
  1. Pengjun Zhao

    1. School of Urban Planning and Design, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China

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  2. Jinxin Xie

    1. College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

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  • 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

Part of the book series: Population, Regional Development and Transport (PRDT)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Pengjun Zhao, Jinxin Xie
    Pages 1-23

  3. Aging: A Global Challenge

    • Pengjun Zhao, Jinxin Xie
    Pages 25-41

  4. Aging and Transport

    • Pengjun Zhao, Jinxin Xie
    Pages 43-65

  5. Progress and Problems with Age-Friendly Transport Policies

    • Pengjun Zhao, Jinxin Xie
    Pages 67-94

  6. Aging in China

    • Pengjun Zhao, Jinxin Xie
    Pages 95-144

  7. Travel Needs of Older People

    • Pengjun Zhao, Jinxin Xie
    Pages 145-165

  8. Travel Behaviour of Older People

    • Pengjun Zhao, Jinxin Xie
    Pages 167-194

  9. Factors in the Travel Behaviour of Older People

    • Pengjun Zhao, Jinxin Xie
    Pages 195-232

  10. Building Age-Friendly Transport in China

    • Pengjun Zhao, Jinxin Xie
    Pages 233-249

  11. Conclusion and Outlook

    • Pengjun Zhao, Jinxin Xie
    Pages 251-253

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 255-257
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Urban Planning and Design, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China

    Pengjun Zhao

  • College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Jinxin Xie

About the authors

Prof. Pengjun Zhao obtained his Ph.D. degree in Spatial Planning at University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is now Editor-in-Chief of Cities (Elsevier), Vice Chair of the Commission on Transport and Geography of the IGU (International Geography Union) and Guest Professor in the Department of Land Economy at University of Cambridge. He is Full Professor and Dean in School of Urban Planning and Design at Peking University. His research mostly focuses on urban and transport planning, transport geography and sustainable mobility. 


Jinxin Xie is Researcher in the Centre for Urban Planning and Transport Studies at Peking University. Her researches mostly focus on age-friendly transportation, urban-rural integration and urban planning.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Population Aging and Age-Friendly Transport in China

  • Authors: Pengjun Zhao, Jinxin Xie

  • Series Title: Population, Regional Development and Transport

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9243-8

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-9242-1Published: 02 February 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-9245-2Published: 02 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-9243-8Published: 31 January 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2662-4613

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-4621

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 257

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 133 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Demography, Industries, Human Geography

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