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Sustainable Development of China’s Road Transportation Infrastructure: Situation and Prospect

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Along with the rapid development of the national economy, as well as the increasing of transportation on road, China’s road traffic infrastructure faces major challenges. It has been already widely accepted that it is imperative to protect the environment in the process of road transportation infrastructure construction and further realize the sustainable development of the transportation infrastructure. In this paper, the current situation of China’s road transportation infrastructure is analyzed; and the philosophy and connotation of the sustainable development of road transportation infrastructure is elaborated; at last, the corresponding countermeasures concerning the legal, fiscal and demonstration policies are provided.

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Zhang, J., Liu, K., Zhang, Y. (2013). Sustainable Development of China’s Road Transportation Infrastructure: Situation and Prospect. In: Chen, F., Liu, Y., Hua, G. (eds) LTLGB 2012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34651-4_11

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