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Investigating low carbon development of high-density building clusters located around railway passenger transport hubs in China

Ji, Qunfeng 2018. Investigating low carbon development of high-density building clusters located around railway passenger transport hubs in China. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
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Abstract

China has experienced high rates of urbanisation due to the increasing housing demand in cities, resulting in high energy consumption and high carbon dioxide emissions from buildings. Moreover, transport-related carbon dioxide emissions will also show a dramatic increase because of the growing number of vehicles in the process of the rapid urbanisation. This research aims to investigate building energy consumption and transport-related carbon dioxide emissions due to mobilities of users from buildings and propose strategies to reduce their energy demand and carbon dioxide emissions in cities. The main contributions of this research are two-fold. Firstly, in the theoretical aspect,this research fills the research gap on the combination of the carbon dioxide emissions quantification with buildings and the transport. Secondly, in the practical perspective, this research presents examples study of the carbon dioxide emissions quantification, analyses potential factors affecting energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, and provides strategies for low carbon city development. This study adopts an on-site survey, questionnaires, modelling simulation, and regression analysis to explore the situations of carbon dioxide emissions in three cases, with each representing one typical location type. The study provides an understanding of the low carbon city development, investigates energy demand and carbon dioxide emissions and compares energy demand with the simulation; it examines factors including street orientation, the layout of building clusters, overshadows, and urban heat island effects with carbon dioxide emissions from building sectors. Meanwhile, this study regresses modal splits with three aspects relating to socioeconomic characteristics, travel patterns from respondents, and self-evaluation on travelling. All of these provides implications for both theoretical and practical research on low carbon city development.

Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
Status: Unpublished
Schools: Architecture
Uncontrolled Keywords: Low Carbon High-Density Building Clusters Railway Passenger Transport Hubs China Urbanisation Energy
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 3 January 2019
Last Modified: 20 Sep 2021 15:08
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/117955

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