When mobility meets sustainability: The impact of mobility-as-a-service platform on air pollution in Beijing, China

IF 6.3 2区工程技术 Q1 ECONOMICS

Transport Policy Pub Date : 2025-10-07 DOI:10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.103849

Zhao Liu , Rong Song , Bin Su , Chen Li , Yishuai Ren

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Abstract

By providing an integrated framework for travel planning, booking, payment, and ticketing, Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform provides a transformative pathway to reducing private car usage and mitigating environmental externalities. Few studies have assessed whether MaaS platforms can effectively contribute to sustainability goals, such as mitigating air pollution. This study evaluates the impact of the MaaS platform implemented on Nov 4, 2019 on air pollution in Beijing, China by employing a double-debiased machine learning model. Drawing on air quality and meteorological data from 34 environmental monitoring stations in Beijing from Jan 1, 2016 to Dec 31, 2020, this study reveals that the MaaS platform significantly reduces air pollutant concentrations, including PM_2.5, PM₁₀, CO, and NO₂ in the central urban areas, particularly on major roads. This result withstands extensive robustness tests. Moreover, the MaaS platform is more effective in mitigating air pollution under non-rainy conditions and in areas with established metro stations. However, the point trading incentive integrated into the MaaS platform does not contribute to further short-term reductions in air pollution.

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当机动性满足可持续性：机动性即服务平台对中国北京空气污染的影响

通过提供旅行规划、预订、支付和票务的集成框架，出行即服务（MaaS）平台为减少私家车使用和减轻环境外部性提供了一条变革性途径。很少有研究评估MaaS平台是否能有效地促进可持续发展目标，如减轻空气污染。本研究采用双去偏机器学习模型，评估了2019年11月4日实施的MaaS平台对中国北京空气污染的影响。利用2016年1月1日至2020年12月31日北京34个环境监测站的空气质量和气象数据，该研究表明，MaaS平台显著降低了中心城区，特别是主要道路上的空气污染物浓度，包括PM2.5、PM10、CO和NO2。这一结果经受住了广泛的稳健性测试。此外，MaaS平台在非降雨条件下和已建立地铁站的地区更有效地缓解空气污染。然而，整合到MaaS平台中的积分交易激励措施并不能在短期内进一步减少空气污染。

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Transport Policy Multiple-

CiteScore

12.10

自引率

10.30%

发文量

282

期刊介绍： Transport Policy is an international journal aimed at bridging the gap between theory and practice in transport. Its subject areas reflect the concerns of policymakers in government, industry, voluntary organisations and the public at large, providing independent, original and rigorous analysis to understand how policy decisions have been taken, monitor their effects, and suggest how they may be improved. The journal treats the transport sector comprehensively, and in the context of other sectors including energy, housing, industry and planning. All modes are covered: land, sea and air; road and rail; public and private; motorised and non-motorised; passenger and freight.