In its 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan, the Federal Government pledges to make it easier for Canadians to switch to electric vehicles, promising millions for charging infrastructure, and incentive programs for purchasers of electric vehicles. It refers to the benefits of hybrid and electric buses, major public transit projects, like the Ontario Line, and notes that […]
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 […]
The Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series presents "Integrated modelling of land use and transport" by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Wegener, Spiekerman & Wegener – Germany. Climate researchers agree that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions significantly contribute to climate change, and that radical measures to reduce them and to adapt to no longer avoidable […]
