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Journal of Chinese
Architecture and Urbanism Stakeholder perspectives on BRTEMIP

of transportation services. Through the policy promotion cell vehicles, and optimizing the transportation structure
and business maturity described in relation to the previous (Wang et al., 2020).
stage, the platform itself has seen improvements in data The BRTEMIP is designed to effectively grasp
reliability and timely data monitoring by the government information about the quality of the environment, the
and the Ministry of Communications. At the same time, sources of pollution emissions, and changing trends in
the upgraded transportation environment monitoring these aspects. This platform provides data support for
information platform has become more mature and stable, compiling transportation development plans, conducting
thereby becoming more attractive to travelers, leading to scientific research on transport-related environmental
an increase in market demand and market share.
protection, and submitting statistical reports on the
3.2.2. Research scope environmental impact of transportation. The main goals are
to provide networked and digitized traffic environmental
Since 2012, due to the rapid development of Beijing’s monitoring information, achieve multi-indicator and full-
economy and the accelerated process of urbanization, the coverage traffic environmental monitoring, strengthen the
transportation sector, identified as one of the three key comprehensive application and analysis of environmental
industries targeted for energy conservation and emissions and traffic data, integrate traffic environmental monitoring
reduction in Beijing, has vigorously promoted green data for information sharing, and achieve “integrated
modes of transportation and energy-saving measures (Sun business processing” and “fine management.”
et al., 2021). By 2020, the campaign against transportation
pollution had been successfully completed, and the 4. Results
BRTEMIP was recognized as essentially sound. More
effective resource management and utilization methods 4.1. Analysis and monitoring of the urban road
had been adopted to enable the transportation industry to environment
meet the needs of social and economic development while Guided by planning objectives, functional positioning,
reducing its negative impact. For example, optimizing the and layout standards, this study primarily investigates the
transportation structure and increasing the proportion of layout scheme of the urban road traffic and transportation
green modes of travel (Li et al., 2020). environmental monitoring network within and around the
Looking ahead to 2035, the goal is to achieve a Fifth Ring Road in Beijing. It focuses on the development
greater harmony between transportation development of the urban road infrastructure, as shown in Figure 2.
and nature, leveraging scientific advancements in the First, an analysis of the population density distribution
ecological governance of the transportation system. map in Beijing was conducted to identify densely populated
This objective is consistent with the requirements of areas near urban roads during peak traffic hours. Based on
achieving a higher level of ecological and environmental this analysis, the layout of roadside stations was determined
protection in relation to transportation development, thus accordingly. Second, road segments within the Fifth Ring
ensuring the harmonious coexistence of transportation Road and its surrounding areas, where traffic flow during
development and the natural environment. Such peak hours ranks in the top decile for the city as a whole,
harmony will be underpinned by a more solid material were selected as monitoring objects for busy traffic levels.
foundation and institutional guarantees. In 2021, the We considered the existing environmental monitoring
14 5-year Plan for the Development of a Modern layout plan of Beijing’s environmental protection system,
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Comprehensive Transportation System proposed actions and made adjustments and optimizations to the layout
designed to achieve green and low-carbon transformation. scheme, utilizing existing environmental monitoring
These actions include strengthening carbon emissions stations in some cases. The goal of this approach is to
accounting, establishing a carbon emissions monitoring reduce the amount of capital invested in monitoring points
platform, and promoting the construction of near-zero while achieving comprehensive monitoring of information
carbon transportation demonstration zones (Wang, et al., on the environmental quality of key urban road segments
2023). Simultaneously, the 14 5-Year Plan for Ecological in Beijing. Finally, using the standard six environmental
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and Environmental Protection in Beijing introduced a air quality factors (including CO, PM , PM , NOx,
2.5
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series of measures designed to protect and preserve the and O ) and equivalent continuous A-weighted noise, sites
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environment, including formulating implementation with suitable conditions were identified for monitoring
plans for the promotion and deployment of new energy additional factors such as black carbon, benzene series
vehicles, vigorously promoting the transition from “oil- compounds, and non-methane total hydrocarbons.
to-electricity” for vehicles, replacing various petrol- or Automated stations were proposed for continuous online
diesel-powered vehicles with pure electric or hydrogen fuel monitoring (Salami, 2021).

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