Latest Past Events

José Holguín-Veras presents “Freight transportation policy and planning in the fight against climate change: The role of connected trucks, land use, and other tools nobody talks about”

Online via Zoom

The obvious changes in the climate—exemplified by former “hundred year weather events” taking place every other year—are adding tremendous urgency to efforts to reduce the emissions produced by mobile sources. In this context, reducing the freight transportation’s environmental footprint is an essential, though extremely hard to achieve, component of sustainability efforts. To a great extent, this […]

Marianne Hatzopoulou presents “The Paradox of Net-Zero: Cities, Transportation & Health”

Online Event

Join us December 2nd at noon as Professor Marianne Hatzopoulou confronts the challenges of climate change on transportation. Climate-change mitigation in the transportation sector is a wicked-hard problem. Low emission technologies have begun to demonstrate some promise for air quality improvements. However, higher demand for these same technologies can therefore enable uncontrolled consumption. Almost every […]