Sustainable Mobiliy

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Lectures with the help of audiovisual media where concepts, principles and theories are presented in detail. Practical examples and real data that meet all the needs of students are presented, with guidelines provided.

Assessment of students involves the undertaking of individual assignments including the production and hand-in of the respective reports, and oral presentation subjected to questions where knowledge transmitted during the course is also evaluated.

Learning Outcomes

To provide students with knowledge concerning:

- the relationships among transportation, energy, environment, urban and regional planning, sustainability;

- the importance of urban and transportation planning in energy requirements;

- the importance of vehicle technologies in energy efficiency;

- transportation modes and respective energy requirements;

- decision-making analysis related to problems of transportation and energy.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Transportation and energy: environmental, economic and social aspects. Environmental impacts of transportation. Ecological footprint of regions, countries and cities, and respective component related to energy requirements and transportation. Energy consumption factors. Economic energy efficiency.

Vehicles technology and energy efficiency related aspects; Movement equations.

Transportation modes and respective energy requirements. Evolution of motorization rates. Evolution of vehicle efficiency and lifecycle energy requirements. Fossil fuels and alternative fuels.

Indicators. Sustainable transportation solutions.

Urban systems evolution and new trends. The influence of urban form in energy requirements. Urban mobility and transportation planning. Transportation demand planning. Modal shift private car - public transportation and reduction of energy requirements.

Techniques to solve decision problems: analyzing alternatives.

Head Lecturer(s)

Arminda Maria Marques Almeida

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 50.0%
Research work: 50.0%

Bibliography

Banister, D., R. Hickman. “How to design a more sustainable and fairer built environment: transport and communications”, IEE Proc. Intell. Transp. Syst., Vol. 153, No. 4, pg 276-291, December 2006.

Black, W. - Sustainable transportation: problems and solutions. The Guilford Press. 2010.

EPA - Guide to Sustainable Transportation Performance Measures, 2011.

European Commission - “Roadmap to a single european transport area”, White Paper, 2011.

Hucho,W.(ed.) - “Aerodynamics of Road Vehicles: From Fluid Mechanics to Vehicle Engineering”, 4th ed., Proceed. SAE International, 1998.

IEEE - Breaking Our Dependence on Oil by Transforming Transportation, IEEE, USA-2012.

James Woodcock, David Banister, Phil Edwards, Andrew M Prentice, Ian Roberts. “Energy and transport”, Lancet, Vol. 370, Issue 9592, 1078-1088, 22, 2007.

Jean-Paul Rodrigue, C. Comtois - “Transportation and Energy” in The Geography of Transport Systems, 2nd Edition, New York, Routledge, 2009.