Do Rail Transits Improve Local Air Quality? Take Chengdu-Nanchang for Example Xueyuan Wang Zhejiang Gongshang University Yuping Wang Zhejiang Gongshang University Zhijian Zhang (
[email protected] ) Zhejiang Gongshang University Jingwei Li Zhejiang Gongshang University Research Article Keywords: Urban Rail Transit, Air Pollution, Regression Discontinuity Designs, Chengdu-Nanchang Posted Date: April 27th, 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-320209/v1 License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Read Full License 1 Do Rail Transits Improve Local Air Quality? Take Chengdu-Nanchang for Example 2 Xueyuan Wang, Yuping Wang, Zhijian Zhang *, Jingwei Li 3 The affiliation and address of the authors: 4 School of Economics, Zhejiang Gongshang University, 18 Xuezheng Road, Hangzhou 310018, 5 China. 6 The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author: 7
[email protected] (Z. Zhang), 0086-187-58107661, 0086-571-28008035 8 The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the coauthor: 9
[email protected] (X. Wang), 0086-135-88493453, 0086-571-28008035 10
[email protected] (Y. Wang), 0086-153-81165378, 0086-571-28008035 11
[email protected] (J. Li), 0086-188-88929759, 0086-571-2800803 12 Do rail transits improve local air quality? Take Chengdu-Nanchang for example 13 Abstract 14 Many cities in China have invested the city’s rail transit system to reduce urban air pollution and 15 traffic congestion. Earlier studies rarely compare the effects of rail transit on urban air quality in 16 different cities, providing little guidance to urban planners in solving traffic congestion and air 17 quality.