Climate change and transport

Jochem, Patrick; Rothengatter, Werner; Schade, Wolfgang

doi:10.1016/j.trd.2016.03.001

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“…A second major source of environmental benefit relates to the parallel trend of electric vehicles (EVs). EVs contribute less to global warming than conventional vehicles and are an important part of future efforts to reduce the environmental impacts of transport systems 17 . It is expected that AVs and EVs will coincide given their complementary focus on efficiency and their shared reliance on route planning 9 .…”

Section: Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Why public health should embrace the autonomous car

Pettigrew

2017

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Section: Climate Changementioning

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Why public health should embrace the autonomous car

Pettigrew

2017

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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“…These damaging environmental impacts, in addition to suburban sprawl, have increased over the past number of decades to a point where current patterns of urban mobility are deemed unsustainable [3,4]. While decarbonising transportation are perceived as more challenging compared to other sectors [5], there are increasing calls for the scientific community to strengthen its proclamations that contemporary societies remain fixated on inefficient and oil dependent mobility technologies [6]. Moreover, it is argued that transport planning is at crisis point and it underestimates the key challenges facing urban planners [7,8].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

At a Crossroads: Investigating Automobility and Its Implications for Local Urban Transport Policy Design

Hynes

2017

Urban Science

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More people than ever before are living in urban settlements, increasing competition for living space, employment, food, water, and energy. Urbanisation poses many challenges, most notably meeting the basic health and well-being needs of inhabitants. One of the key challenges faced is the increase in transport-related energy consumption and its negative economic, environmental, and social consequences. Cities and towns are complex spatial structures supported by transport systems, and automobility dominates many urban planning decisions. Such approaches to transportation and land use patterns favour and promote car use, providing inadequate alternatives or more sustainable modes of transport such as public transport, cycling, and walking. However, automobility is now deemed unsustainable, and moves toward more sustainable modes of transport are both necessary and essential to improving the quality of life for all citizens. This study seeks to determine levels of automobility thinking and attitudes to transportation in Galway, a small city on the west coast of Ireland, and provides an innovative, quantitative measure of reliance on this single mode of transport. Results indicate people who live in the city are not as car dependent as its rural hinterlands, although this is seldom reflected in local authority and regional transport approaches and decision-making.

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“…The fact that road transport is one of the most polluting sectors in terms of greenhouse effect gas emissions [1] has led to a resolution by the Conference of the Parties to reduce Global Warming. This resolution motivates the countries to minimize emissions.…”

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Economic Impact of the Use of Inertia in an Urban Bus Company

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Public transport companies face great expenses. In order to be profitable companies, they need to reduce costs in all aspects. In addition, many countries have increased taxes to force transport companies to reduce their fuel consumption and, thus, greenhouse effect emissions. Efficient driving is the cheapest way to achieve this goal. In this paper, we analyze the economic impact of one of the most influential efficient driving techniques in an urban bus company. We calculate the difference of consumption between a well-performed deceleration using the inertia of the vehicle and a loss of speed obtained by using the brakes. For this purpose, we compare a real track performed by any driver in a precise vehicle with a simulated ideal track. To obtain the deceleration of the simulation, we develop a linear regression model on over 170,000 samples captured from the same vehicle over a period of one month. The results show that the costs of the vehicle under test in one month may be reduced by more than 2500 € by using this technique. With these results, we can see that it is worth trying to anticipate different situations while driving only by applying inertia adequately.

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Climate change and transport

Cited by 15 publications

References 5 publications

Why public health should embrace the autonomous car

Why public health should embrace the autonomous car

At a Crossroads: Investigating Automobility and Its Implications for Local Urban Transport Policy Design

Economic Impact of the Use of Inertia in an Urban Bus Company

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