Although social-cost analyses of transportation have been performed in Europe and the U. S. for over 25 years (Murphy and Delucchi, 1998), and sophisticated transportation social-cost models have been developed (Delucchi et al., 2004; Friedrich and Bickel, 2001), in China interest in social-cost analysis is relatively recent. Jaccard and Yushi (2001) talk generally about the use of social-cost analysis in the electricity sector in China. Heck et al. (2003) and Eliasson and Lee (2003) describe the application of a sophisticated set of LCA and external-cost models to electricity generation technologies in China. The World Bank (1997) has published a report estimating the health costs of ambient air pollution in China. However, there do not yet appear to be any sophisticated analyses of the social or external costs of transportation modes in China.

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