ABSTRACT
Introduction Transport has become a crucial component of modern life in China. The transport sector, a major oil consumer and GHG emitter worldwide, is China’s most rapidly growing sector in terms of energy and particularly oil demand and GHG emissions. Transport petroleum consumption reached 98 million tonnes of oil equivalent (Mtoe) in 2005, 21 times that in 1980 (APEC 2007). The rapid growth of road vehicles, private vehicles in particular, is responsible for the growth in China’s oil demand and imports, which had affected future oil availability and prices, and a contributor to China’s GHG emission increase (Yan and Crookes 2007a).
