Rapid motorization in China: environmental and social challenges

Rapidly increasing motorization in China, particularly private automobiles, creates both economic and individual benefits, as well as externalities and indirect negative impacts. Such externalities could be adapted and mitigated relatively easily when the rate of motorization growth is low. However, when the number of private automobiles rises by 15 to 20 percent per year and is heavily concentrated in dense cities, externalities create undesirable environmental and social consequences.

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