Bus vehicle status analysis in China

This paper analyses the current bus vehicle status in China, including vehicle age, bus company size, emissions standards, fuel type and bus vehicles´ distribution of the country. The analysis results show that nearly one fifth vehicles are more than 8 years old; and generally the size of bus companies is small; and high emission vehicles account for a large proportion of all vehicles (80.1%), and recent 2 years high-emission vehicles still enter the bus operating market; moreover, most of the vehicles use gasoline (16.65%) and diesel (69.3%), clean fuel vehicles, such as compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), are at a very low percentage; the bus vehicles ownership is at different level in different provinces, the western region is clear behind the eastern. In order to reduce energy consumption and emission, several policy recommendations had been proposed.