Sustainable transport

The cultural barriers to a low-carbon future: A review of six mobility and energy transitions across 28 countries

Elsevier, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 119, March 2020
This review focuses on how culture can complicate and impede attempts at promoting more efficient, more sustainable, and often more affordable forms of mobility as well as energy use in homes and buildings. In simpler terms: it illustrates the cultural barriers to a low-carbon, low-energy future across 28 countries. Rather than focus on energy supply, it deals intently with energy end-use, demand, and consumption.
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Energy; Sustainable consumption and production; Sustainable transport, Global

Initial evaluation of a public transportation training program for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities: Short report

Elsevier, Journal of Transport and Health, Volume 16, March 2020
Introduction: People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) including Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) often face serious transportation challenges that impede healthcare access, community participation, and employment opportunities. Travel training, which makes use of one-on-one instruction, may help people with IDD overcome transportation barriers. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a comprehensive travel training program on the travel skills of individuals with IDD.
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Diversity and inclusion; Health and wellbeing; Sustainable transport; Sustainable cities and human settlements, North America

Challenges and opportunities of zero emission shipping in smart islands: A study of zero emission ferry lines

Elsevier, eTransportation, Volume 3, February 2020
Various studies have shown that maritime sector needs increased use of zero emission vessels in service by 2030 in order to achieve an absolute reduction in CO2 emissions of 50% by 2050 (consistent with a 2 °C pathway). These vessels, with operational emissions containing zero or negligible greenhouse gas share, would need to represent a significant portion of newbuilds from that point onwards.
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Energy; Sustainable consumption and production; Climate change; Sustainable transport, Global

Chapter 1: Transport and health; an introduction

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Advances in Transportation and Health, Tools, Technologies, Policies, and Developments, 2020, Pages 3-32
There is a relationship between land use, transport, and health, and to change transport and health, one has to change land use. In this chapter, we provide an introduction to the topic and make some suggestions on how to reduce the negative health impacts. The goal of SDG 11.2 is to provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons
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Health and population; Health and wellbeing; Sustainable transport, Global

Aqueous solution discharge of cylindrical lithium-ion cells

Elsevier, Sustainable Materials and Technologies, Volume 22, December 2019
The development of mass-market electric vehicles (EVs) using lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is helping to propel growth in LIB usage, but end-of-life strategies for LIBs are not well developed. An important aspect of waste LIB processing is the stabilisation of such high energy-density devices, and energy discharge is an obvious way to achieve this. Salt-water electrochemical discharge is often mentioned as the initial step in many LIB recycling studies, but the details of the process itself have not often been mentioned.
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Sustainable consumption and production; Sustainable transport; Chemicals and waste; Energy, Global

International Built Environment Week

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International Built Environment Week (IBEW), to be held from 3 to 6 September 2019, is the most comprehensive event in Asia Pacific on the built environment. IBEW 2019 will feature 4 co-located tradeshows showcasing the latest innovations and industry solutions: BEX Asia covering the integrated design and planning space, Innobuild (IB) Asia focusing on construction 4.0, Mostra-Convegno Expocomfort (MCE) Asia zooming in on energy efficient solutions and renewable energy and Smart Cities and Buildings (SCB) Asia featuring the latest advances in urban solutions and smart cities.

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Sustainable transport; Sustainable cities and human settlements; Green economy, Europe

Sorption of organic substances to tire wear materials: Similarities and differences with other types of microplastic

Elsevier, TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry, Volume 113, April 2019
Tire materials are a significant proportion of the (micro)plastics in the environment that until today have been clearly overlooked. These materials are released into the environment, either unintentionally as an abrasion product from tire wear, that reaches the environment via road runoff, or intentionally as, for example, shredded “tire crumble rubber” used as filling material for playgrounds.
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Sustainable transport; Biodiversity and ecosystems; Chemicals and waste, Global

Design and Operation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells - Chapter 12: Mobile applications: Cars, trucks, locomotives, marine vehicles, and aircraft

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Design and Operation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: The Systems Engineering Vision for Industrial Application, Volume , 1 January 2019
This book chapter advances SDG goals 7, 13, and 11 by examining the use of solid oxide fuel cells in land, marine, and aerial vehicles as a replacement for carbon emitting fossil fuel engines.
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Energy; Sustainable transport; Technology, Global

Sustainable Urban Mobility Pathways - Chapter 2: Sustainable urban mobility solutions for Asia, Latin America and the Mediterranean region

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Sustainable Urban Mobility Pathways: Policies, Institutions, and Coalitions for Low Carbon Transportation in Emerging Countries, 2019, Pages 23-63
This book chapter addresses goals 9, 10, and 11 by summarising the conditions, trends, and implications of sustainable urban mobility solutions in China, India, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, Israel, and Morocco.
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Sustainable cities and human settlements; Sustainable transport; Industry, Global

Supporting healthy route choice for commuter cyclists: The trade-off between travel time and pollutant dose

Elsevier, Operations Research for Health Care, Volume 19, December 2018
Cyclists form the most vulnerable road user group in terms of injury from traffic accidents, as well as exposure to traffic-related air pollution. Ironically, commuter cyclists are often motivated by improvement in health and fitness. Cycleways away from traffic with lower concentrations of pollutants from motorised vehicles sometimes result in longer distances and hence require longer travel times, while alternative routes sharing the road with other traffic, sometimes with buses, might result in exposure to higher pollutant concentrations.
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Health and wellbeing; Sustainable cities and human settlements; Sustainable transport; Health and population, Global

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