China Academy of
Transportation Sciences
Dr. Jia wenzheng
March 07, 2012
1. Who we are?
2. Work Highlights
3. Research on Urban Transport
China Academy of
Transportation Sciences
(CATS)
• Established in : 1960
• Supervisor ： Ministry of
Transport & Ministry of
Science and Technology
• Consisting of: total staff
588,
including
451
professionals, 11 major
research divisions
Major Research Divisions
Transport Development Research Center
Transport Information Center
Environment Protection and Safety Research Center
Transportation Technical Consulting Center
C
A
T
S
China Urban Sustainable Transport Research Center
Logistics Research and Development Center
Road Structure and Material Development Center
Transport Economics and Financing Institute
Standards and Measurement Research Center
Information Research Center
Information Technology Center
• International Cooperation
European Commissions
Research and Innovative Technology Administration
World Bank
Asian Development Bank
American Public Transportation Association
Volvo Research and Educational Foundations
US Energy Foundations
VREF: UC Berkeley, GAMUT
CIVITAS Global Dialogue
German Aerospace Institute
Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, USA
UC Davis
Land Transport Academy of Singapore
Seoul Human Resource Center
 SEI
…
Urban Transport Research
MOT
post
civil aviation
Highway construction
Long distance transport
waterway
Urban transport policy
Bus
Rail
Taxi&
Private car
Change on March, 2008, from
MOC to MOT
A think tank to provide policy decision making and technical
support to the central, MOT and local city level
Urban Transport Research
A policy think tank
Policy
&
planning
National public
Transport standards
A national urban transport
information system & simulation lab
Strong expertise of young, energetic research
team, specialized in urban transport and policy studies
A platform for
international
research exchange
& communications
An international
information
resource center
A credible sciencebased policy
research
Urban Transport Research
Guideline for transport institutional reform
in Chinese central cities
Urban transport database construction
And public transport efficiency evaluation
Draft the public transport regulation
urban public transport planning model
Public transport investment
and subsidy policy
public transport dispatching system
（including taxi）
TDM measures for Beijing Olympic
Games” and result evaluation
Preparation for the Construction of Urban
Public Transport Standardization Committee
Outline of urban passenger transport
planning for the Twelfth-Five year plan
Comprehensive transport planning in major
cities （including BRT) such as Xi’an
& Taiyuan
National Policy guideline for promoting urban public
transport priority development in China is issued in 2011
Public Transport Regulation to be issued in 2012
• Supporting the draft on Public Transport Regulation led by
Road Transport Management Dept. of MOT.
China Urban Transport Database (CUTD)
City
Level
Ministry Level :China Urban Transport Database
Application
Policy making
Decision support
Beijing
New York
Operation
Infrastructure
Shanghai
Finance
Comparative
analysis among
cities
Tokyo
Energy
consumption
Zhengzhou
……
Safety &
emergency
Performance
evaluation of
public
transport
Hongkong
……
National Transit Metropolis
Promoting the pilot program of The National Transit Metropolis
• Initiating action plan of the national transit metropolis,
30 pilot cities by 2015.
• Field surveys in typical candidate cities such as Harbin,
Chengdu
• Monitoring the process by developing the tools of
China Urban Transport Database (CUTD)
Gas Consumption Subsidy
•About 40 billion RMB from Central Government in the
past two year
•Data collection.
•The experience of NTD?
Urban Passenger Transport Standardization
•Preparation for establishing The National Committee for
Urban Passenger Transport Standards (NCUPTS) ,
supervised by the State Commission for National
Standards and MOT.
•Established expert committee, 50 members from bus
enterprises, rail operation enterprises, taxi enterprises,
urban transport research institutes, and transport
authorities.
• Draft five year working plan of Urban Passenger
Transport Standardization, particularly in safety and
service quality of public transport, bus energy efficiency
Rail Transit
Beijing, 337 km
Shanghai, 441 km
Guangzhou, 236 km
Tianjin
Shenzhen
Nanjing
Chongqing
Wuhan
Changchun
Dalian
Chengdu
Shenyang
Ridership in 2010：5.57 billion
Xian
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 mileage：1452 kilometers
 Metro
1.31%
1197 kilometers
2.75%
2.00%
 Light rail
167 kilometers
 Magnetic
29 kilometers
 Monorail
19 kilometers
 Tram
40 kilometers
11.50%
82.44%
（by the end of 2010）
Metro
Light rail
Magnetic
Monorail
Tram
High daily Ridership
It is a great challenge to
develop a safer and
efficient urban rail
networks in Chinese
cities
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Safety and
security issues
Safety Audits?
Safety Assessment?
Financial
sustainability
All money are from Local Government
the capital cost is about 600 million RMB
per kilometer, about $59 million per mile
1.52 billon operating subsidy in 2009 in
Beijing
Thank you for your
attention!