Sustainable Mobility (EaD)

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The methodology followed consists of: (1) individual contact and reflection on study materials (2) sharing of reflection and study among the students, (3) clarification of doubts in the forums moderated by the teacher-mentors, and (4) completion of the proposed activities.

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

Environmental, economic and social aspects associated to transportation. Ecological footprint of regions, countries and cities, and respective component related to energy requirements and transportation.

Vehicles technology and energy efficiency related aspects; Movement equations.

Integrated analysis of energy requirements in transportation. Fossil fuels and alternative fuels. Electric mobility.

Urban systems evolution and new trends. The influence of urban form in energy requirements.

Mobility management. Transportaion demand management. Urban mobility and transportation planning. Modal shift private car - public transportation and reduction of energy requirements. Decision support techniques for analysing intervention alternatives.

Assessment Methods

Continuous assessment
This course unit adopts the continuous assessment model, and the final classification of the students is the result of the work developed throughout the course (namely, participation in the forums and the performance of evaluation activities). The final classification of each student will be expressed in a scale of 0 - 20 points: 100.0%

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, Dec 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., Proc. SAE International, 1998.

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

J. Woodcock, et al. “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.

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