This working paper provides a bottom-upestimate of energy use and Green-House Gas (GHG) emissionsfor the transport sector based on data available at the cityand municipal levels. For urban transport in China, GHGemissions primarily consist of carbon dioxide (CO2), sothese terms are used interchangeably. Energy use and CO2emissions are also highly correlated based on thepredominance of fossil fuels in transport. A database ofself-reported indicators was developed and verified for thefourteen participating cities of the China World Bank-GlobalEnvironment Facility (GEF) Urban Transport PartnershipProgram. Other supplemental sources were also used to enrichthe dataset for urban transport and energy analysis, namelythe most recent China City Statistical Yearbooks. Beijingand Shanghai were also included where data was availablefrom existing studies given their relevance in broadcomparison of Chinese cities. Section two discusses thegeneral demographic and economic trends in the sample ofcities that may be influencing the sector. Section threepoints to stylized facts about the most relevant urbantransport demand, supply and performance characteristics inrecent years and suggests how they may be driving energyconsumption and GHG emissions. Section four is the analysisand forecast of energy use and GHG emissions using the urbantransport drivers identified. Finally, general conclusionsand next steps are suggested in section five, as well asadditional details on the data, methodology, definitions,and a map of China with the seventeen selected cities in the annexes.
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