Abstract
Like big cities in developing countries, Ho Chi Minh City has incurred more and more emissions from its urban transport activities. The specific objectives of this study are (i) to analyze the demand for urban transport services and associated energy demand and environmental emissions; (ii) to analyze and select the technical options for energy efficiency improvement and mitigation of GHGs and other harmful emissions from the urban transport system; and (iii) to identify and rank the barriers to the introduction of selected technical options to mitigate environmental emissions from the urban transport system.
The results show that in most of scenarios, motorcycle would be the dominant transport mode up to the year 2015, in terms of vehicle stock, energy demand as well as emissions. Some of measures are introduced to improve the situation include construction of mass rapid transit system (MRTS), development of bus system, and strict limitation of motorcycle. To apply those measures to reality, the most critical barriers have to overcome are high capital cost and psychology preference on private transport. In the next phase (i.e. phase III) of the project, the issue "air quality impacts of the selected technological options" is implementing to estimate dispersion of the analyzed emissions into the city atmosphere and compare them to the national standards on air quality.
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