Population Aging and Age-Friendly Transport in China 9789811992452

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Population & demography

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Population Aging and Age-Friendly Transport in China : Springer : 9789811992452 : 9811992452 : 02 Feb 2024 : This book is the first book that investigates aging and its impacts on transport system in China. Using various data, this book covers, but is not limited to, the development of population aging, the changes of travel demand, the features of travel behavior of China's elderly, progress and prospect of age-friendly transport in China. The book has international academic novelty in three points. Firstly, it discovers the long-term supply-demand relationship between population aging and transport infrastructure development. Secondly, it finds the changes and factors in travel behavior of the elderly people. Thirdly, it discusses the advantages or disadvantages of age-friendly transport policy. The findings in the book provide fresh evidences for the challenges posed by aging to transport and enhance readers' existing knowledge of the elderly people's travel behavior and the related

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