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Causal analysis of car CO2 emissions and urban infrastructure using structural equation modeling [1]

The present study examined the relationship between urban land use and car transportation. The results derived from applications of the structural equations modeling revealed that suburbanization directly caused a proportional increase in car ownership and construction of roads, and in turn, indirectly increased the carbon dioxide emissions from cars.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2009
Hiroyasu Sugihara [2], Jun Yamashita [3], Yoriko Ikoma [4]
Journal of Environmental Information Science [5]
37
5
103
Tags:
Carbon Dioxide [6], Climate Mitigation [7], Transport [8], Public Transport [9], Urban Land Use [10], Urban Transport [11], Urban Roads [12], Cars [13], Japan [14], Infrastructure Development [15]
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