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It has been constantly discussed about the concept of “Compact city” as a urban structure to correspond to the climate change. Compact city changes human’s passage pattern and affects both energy consumption and GHGs emissions after all. This research has been done to explain the relation of cause and effect between the characteristics of Compact city, the passage pattern and the amount of road GHGs emissions. For the above objective, First, the relation between the characteristics of compact city, the passage pattern and the amount of Road GHGs emission was closely examined using correlation analysis. Second, the effect of the characteristic of compact city on the amount of road GHGs emissions was found out, and mediated effect of the passage pattern was proved. Third, path analysis was carried out to show the whole cause and effect of independent variables, mediated variables and dependent variables. As a result, mediated effect of ‘vehicle modal share’ appeared in the effect of the characteristics of compact city on the amount of road GHGs emissions. This fact implies that the characteristics of compact city affect the transfer using vehicle, for this reason, GHGs emissions change, rather than the characteristics affects road GHGs emissions directly. Therefore, it is recommended to let these characteristics reduce the demands of moving with vehicle and create an environment which can encourage the use of public transportation, bicycle and walking, meanwhile the use of land should remain compressive and complex.