The Fast Uberization Trend in China’s Road Freight Transport Sector

Road freight transport is a leading oil consumer and one of the most hard-to-abate sectors (IEA 2017; McKinnon 2018). In most developing countries, the sector is characterized by excessive market fragmentation, where the majority of the market supply is from small carriers, such as owner-operators (Londono-Kent 2009). This has led to low systemic energy efficiency in the road freight sector and it has likely contributed to the rapid energy demand growth in many emerging economies in the past (Agenbroad, Mullaney, and Wang 2016; NITI AAYOG, RMI, and RMI India 2021).

Xun Xu

Fellow- Transportation & Infrastructure Xun Xu is a fellow working on freight transport energy demand and freight transport big data. His work has been…

Xun Xu is a fellow working on freight transport energy demand and freight transport big data. His work has been published in Energy Policy. Prior to joining KAPSARC, he worked at the East West Center and in the Natural Resources and Environmental Management department of the University of Hawaii. Xun received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Hawaii in 2015.

Expertise

Freight Transport Big Data
Freight Transport Demand Modeling
Macroeconomics and Chinese Economy

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