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Correlating Household Travel Carbon Emissions, Travel Behavior and Land Use: Case Study of Wuhan, China

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Domesticity contributes a significant portion to the amount of total CO2 emissions. Understanding the influence factors of household travel car-bon emissions helps develop effective policy to minimize carbon emis-sions. This paper presents an empirical study of household travel carbon emissions with1,194 samples in Wuhan, China. Besides looking at the household socioeconomic characteristics, the study pays attention to the role of the spatial context in household living and travel and how it af-fects travel emission outcomes. A regression analysis shows urban spa-tial structure and land use context offer additional explanatory power to variation of travel carbon emissions under the effects of socio-economic factors controlled. Emission hot spots and high-emission household most likely appear in newly developed suburban areas. The paper concludes by suggesting both place-based and people-based policies to achieve the goal of reducing carbon emissions.