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Green & Safe Transports
Arising from the recognition that transport systems have been harmful to the local and global environment and to the overall health of society and individuals, this research is directed at quantifying and understanding this harmfulness, and also at identifying and developing ways in which such harmfulness can be reduced or eliminated. Green & Safe Transports also includes research aiming at developing vehicles and transport systems that have the potential to improve the environment — locally and globally — as well as reducing negative health impacts and raise safety standards.
Key words
Energy efficiency, renewable/green energy, hybrid technologies, air quality, road safety, traffic safety, safety equipment, crash modelling, life cycle assessment, lca, sustainable transports, alternative fuels
Energy efficiency, renewable/green energy, hybrid technologies, air quality, road safety, traffic safety, safety equipment, crash modelling, life cycle assessment, lca, sustainable transports, alternative fuels
Topics covered by the theme include:
Climate change
Life-Cycle assessments of passenger transports
Climate change and greenhouse gas emissions
Air Quality
Air quality analysis & improvement schemes
Monitoring of vehicle emissions and fuel use
Road safety
Safety audits of infrastructure projects
Evaluation of road safety factors in urban areas
Road safety for non-motorised transports
Crash modelling and impact analysis on the human body
Design of safety equipment
Green vehicles
Hybrid buses
Energy efficiency in rail transports
Clean vehicles
Alternative fuels
Research organisations involved in this theme:
Publications within this theme:
- Suggestion on urban low carbon transport system construction in China
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Research organisation:
CoE Beijing, P. R. China
Year: 2011
Type: Research article - Road transport and climate change: stepping off the greenhouse gas
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Research organisation:
CoE Santiago, Chile
Year: 2011
Type: Research article - Deprivation and Road Safety
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Research organisation:
Imperial College of London
Year: 2010
Type: Final Report - Innovative solutions to freight distribution in the complex large urban area of Rome
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Research organisation:
Centre for Transport and Logistics, Sapienza University of Rome
Year: 2010
Type: Final Report - Life-cycle assessment of high-speed rail: the case of California
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Research organisation:
CoE Berkeley, USA
Year: 2010
Type: Research article - Excess commuting: Towards estimating the cost of restricting "wasteful" travel
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Research organisation:
CoE Cape Town, South Africa
Year: 2010
Type: Paper - Quantifying the impact of infrastructure based traffic calming on road safety; A case study in Cape Town
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Research organisation:
CoE Cape Town, South Africa
Year: 2010
Type: Conference proceedings - Road safety in India: Challenges and opportunities
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Research organisation:
CoE New Delhi, India
Year: 2009
Type: Report - Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse‐gas emissions: urban land transport
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Research organisation:
CoE New Delhi, India
Year: 2009
Type: Research article - Aerodynamics of a bus with open windows
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Research organisation:
CoE New Delhi, India
Year: 2009
Type: Research article - Effect of active muscle forces on knee injury risks for pedestrian standing posture at low speed impacts
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Research organisation:
CoE New Delhi, India
Year: 2008
Type: Research article - Design of ventilated helmets: computational fluid and impact dynamics studies
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Research organisation:
CoE New Delhi, India
Year: 2008
Type: Research article - A new challenge to child survival in development countries: An increasing burden of urban road traffic injuries
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Research organisation:
Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Year: 2007
Type: Final Report - Use characteristics and mode choice behaviour of electric bike users in China
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Research organisation:
CoE Berkeley, USA
Year: 2007
Type: Research article - Survival analysis: Pedestrian risk exposure at signalized intersections
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Research organisation:
CoE New Delhi, India
Year: 2007
Type: Research article - Road Traffic Injury Prevention Training Manual
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Research organisation:
CoE New Delhi, India
Year: 2006
Type: Report - Predicting throw distance variations in bicycle crashes
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Research organisation:
CoE New Delhi, India
Year: 2006
Type: Research article - Six‐degree‐of‐freedom three‐wheeled‐vehicle model validation
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Research organisation:
CoE New Delhi, India
Year: 2005
Type: Research article
News
2013-05-16
Urban Freight for Livable Cities Publication
Based on the papers presented in the 2012 international VREF Future Urban Transport Conference, this book aims to make the freight issue more visible,... 2013-01-09
Håkan Frisinger Award 2012 rewards eco-friendly transportation
The Håkan Frisinger Foundation for Transportation Research will be awarding the scholarship for 2012 to Professor Ingemar Denbratt at Chalmers...
Urban Freight for Livable Cities Publication
Based on the papers presented in the 2012 international VREF Future Urban Transport Conference, this book aims to make the freight issue more visible,... 2013-01-09
Håkan Frisinger Award 2012 rewards eco-friendly transportation
The Håkan Frisinger Foundation for Transportation Research will be awarding the scholarship for 2012 to Professor Ingemar Denbratt at Chalmers...
2013-01-08
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