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About
Xun Xu is a Fellow in KAPSARC’s Transportation and Infrastructure Team, specializing in freight transport energy demand and big data analysis. His research has been published in Energy Policy, contributing to a deeper understanding of global energy trends. Before joining KAPSARC, he worked at the East-West Center and the Natural Resources and Environmental Management Department at the University of Hawaii. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Hawaii, earned in 2015. His expertise focuses on freight transport demand modeling, macroeconomics, and the Chinese economy.
Education
2015-01-01
University of Hawaii at Manoa
PhD - Economics
2008-08-01 - 2011-05-14
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Master - Economics
2002-09-01 - 2006-07-01
Beijing Foreign Studies University
Bachelor - E-Commerce
Publications
11 February 2025
The Potential Role of Truck-Hailing and Operational Efficiency Improvement in Decarbonizing China’s Medium- and Heavy-Duty Road Freight TransportTruck-hailing is a relatively new Uber-like business model that connects road freight carriers with shippers via mobile apps. First appeared around 2013, it has achieved fast market uptake in China, involving almost 8 million commercial trucks annually by the end of 2023. With China ...
09 December 2024
Life Cycle Assessment of Road Freight Decarbonization in Saudi ArabiaThe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is committed to transitioning towards a diversified, low-carbon economy, necessitating the decarbonization of its road freight sector, which is a significant source of domestic energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This study address...
04 January 2024
Behavioral Efficiency Improvement via Freight Digitalization as a Viable Near- Term Strategy to Decarbonize the Difficult-To-Abate Road Freight Sector in China and Other Developing CountriesThe containment of road freight transport emission growth is a significant challenge to climate change mitigation, as the road freight sector has been one of the fastest growing sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and is considered particularly difficult to decarbonize (ITF 202...
06 January 2021
Economic Structural Change and Freight Transport Demand in ChinaAfter decades of rapid economic development, China is quickly becoming the world’s second-largest transport energy consumer. Recently, it has also surpassed the United States (U.S.) as the world’s largest oil importer, and it is expected to become the largest oil consum...
