1. China Academy of Transportation Sciences
Dr. Jia wenzheng
March 07, 2012

2. Who we are?
Work Highlights
Research on Urban Transport

3. China Academy of Transportation Sciences (CATS)
Established in : 1960
Supervisor：Ministry of Transport & Ministry of Science and Technology
Consisting of: total staff 588, including professionals, 11 major research divisions

4. C A T S Major Research Divisions Transport Development Research Center
Transportation Technical Consulting Center
Environment Protection and Safety Research Center
China Urban Sustainable Transport Research Center
Logistics Research and Development Center
Standards and Measurement Research Center
Transport Economics and Financing Institute
Road Structure and Material Development Center
Transport Development Research Center
Transport Information Center
Information Research Center
Information Technology Center C A T S

5. 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 …

6. MOT civil aviation waterway post Urban Transport Research
Urban transport policy
Bus Rail Taxi&
waterway
Long distance transport
Highway construction
civil aviation
post
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

7. Urban Transport Research
Strong expertise of young, energetic research
team, specialized in urban transport and policy studies
A national urban transport
information system & simulation lab
National public
Transport standards
Policy
&
planning
A credible science-based policy research
An international information resource center
A platform for international research exchange & communications
A policy think tank

8. 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

9. Public Transport Regulation to be issued in 2012
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. 9

10. Application China Urban Transport Database (CUTD)
City
Level
Ministry Level :China Urban Transport Database
Application
Policy making
Decision support
New York
Beijing
Operation
Infrastructure
Comparative analysis among
cities
Tokyo
Shanghai
Finance
Energy consumption
Performance evaluation of public transport
Safety & emergency
Hongkong
Zhengzhou …… …… 10

11. 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) 11

12. Gas Consumption Subsidy
About 40 billion RMB from Central Government in the past two year
Data collection.
The experience of NTD? 12

13. 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 13

14. Rail Transit Ridership in 2010：5.57 billion Beijing, 337 km
Shanghai, 441 km
Guangzhou, 236 km
Tianjin
Shenzhen
Nanjing
Chongqing
Wuhan
Changchun
Dalian
Chengdu
Shenyang
Xian
Ridership in 2010：5.57 billion

16. mileage：1452 kilometers Metro 1197 kilometers
Light rail kilometers
Magnetic kilometers
Monorail kilometers
Tram kilometers
（by the end of 2010）

17. High daily Ridership It is a great challenge to develop a safer and
efficient urban rail networks in Chinese cities

19. Safety and security issues
Safety Audits?
Safety Assessment?

20. All money are from Local Government
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

21. Thank you for your attention!