Limitations of the TRACE tool While TRACE is a simple and easy tool to evaluate a city’s energy efficiency, there are limitations with respect to the depth of its analysis. It estimates potential energy savings based on benchmarking against other cities in the TRACE database, but the evaluation of city specific energy savings would require more detailed data, which are difficult to obtain, especially in the transport sector. However, TRACE provides the best practices for energy saving recommendations based on the city’s evaluation with cost and implementation requirement information, but it does not provide city specific details on the costs required to undertake the recommended strategies. The Case Study Wuhan, located in central China, is home to 10.22 million residents, covers 8494.41 square kilometers, and had an annual Gross Domestic Product of RMB905.13 billion (USD145.99 billion) in 2013. Although Wuhan is one of China’s fastest-growing cities, it lags behind the coastal cities. The disposable income per capita in Wuhan is RMB20,681 per year compared to RMB32,472 in eastern coastal cities. Thus, the Government of China launched the of Central China” “Rise program to boost economic growth in central China. Wuhan, along with eight smaller cities within a 100 km radius (1+8 city cluster), was selected as one of the first pilot demonstrations of regional planning in China. The goal was to achieve a more balanced and sustainable development pattern in these cities. Improving transport is one of the fundamentals to the development of a central China strategy. Following China’s pattern of rapid motorization, Wuhan, too, is experiencing a rapid growth in the number of motor vehicles. With about 130 vehicles per 1,000 population, the city suffered the negative impact of congestion despite a relatively low vehicle ownership rate compared to other cities such as London (300) and cities in the Netherlands (500). The quality of the environment is compromised by air pollution from the growing private vehicle fleet and old public transport vehicles Background Wuhan is one of the largest cities in China. It ranked the sixth-most populous Chinese city in 2013, according to the China Urban Development Statistical Yearbook as presented in As with other Chinese cities, Wuhan is Table 1.
Limitations of the TRACE tool While TRACE is a simple and easy tool to evaluate a city’s energy efficiency, there are limitations with respect to the depth of its analysis. It estimates potential energy savings based on benchmarking against other cities in the TRACE database, but the evaluation of city specific energy savings would require more detailed data, which are difficult to obtain, especially in the transport sector. However, TRACE provides the best practices for energy saving recommendations based on the city’s evaluation with cost and implementation requirement information, but it does not provide city specific details on the costs required to undertake the recommended strategies. The Case Study Wuhan, located in central China, is home to 10.22 million residents, covers 8494.41 square kilometers, and had an annual Gross Domestic Product of RMB905.13 billion (USD145.99 billion) in 2013. Although Wuhan is one of China’s fastest-growing cities, it lags behind the coastal cities. The disposable income per capita in Wuhan is RMB20,681 per year compared to RMB32,472 in eastern coastal cities. Thus, the Government of China launched the “Rise of Central China” program to boost economic growth in central China. Wuhan, along with eight smaller cities within a 100 km radius (1+8 city cluster), was selected as one of the first pilot demonstrations of regional planning in China. The goal was to achieve a more balanced and sustainable development pattern in these cities. Improving transport is one of the fundamentals to the development of a central China strategy. Following China’s pattern of rapid motorization, Wuhan, too, is experiencing a rapid growth in the number of motor vehicles. With about 130 vehicles per 1,000 population, the city suffered the negative impact of congestion despite a relatively low vehicle ownership rate compared to other cities such as London (300) and cities in the Netherlands (500). The quality of the environment is compromised by air pollution from the growing private vehicle fleet and old public transport vehicles Background Wuhan is one of the largest cities in China. It ranked the sixth-most populous Chinese city in 2013, according to the China Urban Development Statistical Yearbook as presented in Table 1. As with other Chinese cities, Wuhan is
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