China Transport Research and Innovation brief week 37 - 39 2026

Opublikowano: 2026-09-26

15th Five-Year Plan & Cross-Modal Standardization: China's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) shifts transport policy from raw infrastructure expansion to seamless cross-modal network integration. Policy mandates completing 90 percent of multimodal cargo transfers at major hubs within 1 hour by 2030, enforcing unified standards across road, rail, air, and low-altitude drone logistics, and capping national travel times at 1–3 hours by 2035.Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) & Heavy Freight Electrification: To absorb intermittent renewables from 3.5 TW of planned clean energy capacity, China is integrating electric vehicles into the national grid as distributed batteries. The plan mandates 50 GW of aggregated V2G adjustable capacity by 2030 backed by 40 million charging units, alongside 30,000 km o...