Through nearly 20 years of continuous exploration and experience, China
has established a basic general path toward implementing and developing
green sustainable transportation. China has realized that the urban
transportation issue not only is limited to solving the problem of urban
traffic congestion, but also is an essential element of land resource
utilization, of saving energy, and for making improvements to the environ-
ment across the entire country. With rapid development and urbanization,
and with continually improving standards of living, the number of private
motor vehicles is growing rapidly and has huge potential for further growth.
Therefore, the transformation of urban transportation development policy
is facing stringent challenges. The critical process of changing the mindset of
what development entails, the policy of giving priority to developing urban
public transportation, of properly regulating and controlling the use of
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private motor vehicles, and promoting the rational use of different means of
transportation is both a vital and a difficult matter. This process requires the
government and community to gradually reach a collaborative agreement,
take comprehensive measures toward, and work together to drive the
implementation of a healthy plan for green sustainable transportation