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==== The modal split data in Beijing between 1986 and 2014. Source: (Gao and Newman, 2018) <sup>[[#fn:r1358|1358]]</sup> . ====

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Chinese urban fabrics, featuring traditional dense linear forms and mixed land use, favour mass transit systems over automobiles (Gao and Newman, 2018) <sup>[[#fn:r1359|1359]]</sup> . The data show that the decline in car use did not impede economic development, but the growth in vehicle kilometres of travel (VKT) has decoupled absolutely from GDP as shown in Box 4.9, Figure 2 below.

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