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The number of cars on the roads of the world exceeded the billion last year, according to a study that has sparked debate on what the car population growth will mean for the economy and the environment worldwide.
According to Ward Auto Report released last week, the overall number of cars exceeded 1 015000000000 in 2010 from 980 million the previous year.
Not surprisingly, China has opened the way for the growth of the vehicle, the number of cars on Chinese roads increased by 27 5 percent, half of all global growth.
This gives China the second largest automotive world's population, with 78 million vehicles But the United States still is by far the largest population of vehicles in the world, with 239 8 million cars, reported the study neighborhood.
In fact, China should increase the number of cars on its roads nearly sixteen times to match the number of cars in the United States on a per capita reports that Ward is 1 to 3 people per car to States States while in China there are 6 to 75 people per vehicle.
If China were to have as many cars per capita than the U S its sole fleet would be about one billion cars.
But while the population of the car in China has been exploding, U S saw less of an increase in percent of the vehicle population, roughly in line with the most developed economies .
Earlier this year, the International Forum of the OECD transport provides that the number of cars worldwide would reach 2 to 5 billion by 2050.
According seminar Daniel Sperling at UC Davis Institute of Transportation a population of 2 billion cars would require the world to produce at least 120 million barrels of oil per day, against about 87 million today Given exhaustion slow conventional oil sources and the gradual shift towards more expensive alternative sources such as tar sands of Alberta, it is clear the world could not develop such a capacity to produce oil.
Transportation currently accounts for 23 percent of world greenhouse gas emissions, Brad Plumer writes the Washington Post and most of the non-conventional oil is much dirtier, from the perspective of CO2, the traditional substance If people in developing countries continue to buy vehicles and simple upgrades only energy efficiency aren t going to be enough to stop a slight constant rise in global temperatures.
In an analysis published it two years ago, Sperling noted that if Beijing today only adds about 1 500 cars to its roads each day, the rapidly changing economy of China makes it ideal country to lead the way in developing alternative energy vehicles.
The call of the country a hotbed of innovation that is well positioned to meet internal demands and international initiatives, Sperling said China is working on electric cars; is to impose aggressive energy efficiency standards; and develops into innovative transit systems.
What China can do with its massive size and the economy, is to promote these ideas until they are fully grown and then launch them overseas, Sperling and coauthor Deborah Gordon wrote.
Yet China and the fast growing economies of India and Brazil, the world leader in higher demand for cars and these countries often express resentment when they perceive the efforts to curb the growth not sustainable as hostile to their development.
During this year, the International Transport Forum, European speakers urged a revival in the use of bicycles as an alternative to cars, but the representatives of China and India stressed that their populations are being pay their bikes for transportation more sophisticated.
The bike is better to move to Beijing, but bicycle use is plummeting because of the poor air quality and the danger of traffic, professor of Tongji University said Pan Haixiao.
Cycling is a tiny thing, B K Chaturvedi of India's Planning Commission said that's not the future.
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