Carbon dioxide emissions evaluation in building and traffic sectors in the Taichung metropolitan area

Abstract

This research reviewed the relevant literature then adopted the Taichung metropolitan area as the research target and assessed carbon emissions with respect to buildings traffic and carbon sinks The total CO2 emissions generated by the traffic volume in the entire year is calculated according to the investigation data of peak traffic hours within 16 blocks and the influential factors of the development scale of 95 buildings are counted This research found that there is a passenger car unit of 4 72 generated in each square meter of land in the urban block every day 0 99 in each square meter of floor area in the building and the average annual total CO2 emissions generated by the traffic of each square meter of floor area in the building is 12 97 kgCO2/yr The results of this research indicated that the annual average urban carbon emissions consist of 67 6% building carbon emissions 30 5% traffic carbon emissions and 1 9% carbon sink absorption In this research a multiple regression model was used to calculate the floor area of each building This research also determined that densely populated areas emitted higher levels of carbon than less populated areas For every square meter of total floor area 16 51 tCO2/m2·yr of carbon were emitted from buildings every year Recommended policies for the city government to implement in the future were organized and used to establish three simulation scenarios of the various implementation stages In addition the high-resolution grid was used to present the multi-scale carbon budget results which helps government agencies to formulate follow-up priority carbon reduction strategies and urban carbon neutral policies

Date of Award	2019
Original language	English
Supervisor	Tzu-Ping Lin (Supervisor)