Lifestyle Change and Transport in China

This book aims to provide a complete overview of the current status of lifestyle and transport changes in China, focusing on the ongoing trends in lifestyle and transport technologies, which are shaping a new lifestyle and transport system. An additional focus is to discuss the mechanism behind the influence of transport on lifestyles, and analyze the influence of transport facilities on lifestyles, which will help to give efficient and effective transport solutions.

Using macro statistics and survey data from Beijing and Chinese villages and towns, this book explores the interactive development of lifestyle and transportation in China over the past 40 years. The analyses and findings in this book would enhance our existing knowledge of the relationship lifestyle and transport. The policies discussed in the book would provide fresh evidences for policy-making on updating transport services in order to cope with the changes of people’s lifestyle. This book will be of great interest to scholars and governmental agencies interested in transport development, transport policy, social transition, sustainable transport, urban planning, urban governance, and is relevant to China and other developing countries.

Prof. Pengjun Zhao obtained his PhD degree in Spatial Planning at University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is now the Editor-in-Chief of Cities (Elsevier, IF 5.8), the Vice Chair of the Commission on Transport and Geography of the IGU (International Geography Union), and Senior Departmental Fellow of Department of Land Economy at University of Cambridge. He is a Full Professor and the Dean of School of Urban Planning and Design of Peking University. His research mostly focuses on urban and transport planning, transport geography, and sustainable mobility.

Prof. Di Lyu obtained PhD degree at Peking University. Her Ph.D. topic and career have been involved with the transportation policy evaluation and simulation, urban and rural spatial governance based on big data, Since July 2021 she has been an assistant research fellow of Shenzhen Graduate School of Peking University.