Moving toward climate-resilient transport
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Swiss 'Solar Impulse' begins its 19-hour flight from Moffett Field CA to Phoenix AZ without fossil fuel 3 May 2013. Photo credit - © Graham Cameron.
Solar-powered plane takes off for flight around the world
Solar Impulse website
Swiss solar-powered MS Tûranor PlanetSolar (designed in New Zealand) - the largest solar powered boat afloat - in front of the Statue of Liberty, 20 June 2013. Photo credit - © PlanetSolar / Anthony Collins
Urban transportation:
Hyperloop levitation
Air-train of the future
Technology driving safer transport
Towards liquid fuels from carbon dioxide
A winning vision for the future of urban mobility
The challenge of energy-efficient transportation
Hyperloop concept closer to becoming a reality
Partnership on sustainable low carbon transpor
A move towards more sustainable transportation
Greater potential for transport in climate mitigationt
Clean vehicles as an enabler for a clean electricity grid
What can we learn from smart urban mobility technologies
Evacsys: a cloud-based service for emergency evacuation
Rail line disruption set for dramatic increase as sea-levels continue to rise
One-step process to convert CO2 and water directly into renewable liquid hydrocarbon fuels
Trade-offs between costs and greenhouse gas emissions in the design of urban transit systems
Science & user needs for observing global mass transport to understand change and to benefit society
Automobiles:
Mobile mayhem
On the road toward 2050
Tesla is a battery company!
Green cars ranking website
Six reasons EVs make sense
Tesla: All our patents belong to you!
Optimizing automotiveperformance with AI
Campaigning for the use of low-noise tyres
Smart vehicles in the urban traffic of the future
How Rudolf Diesel's engine changed the world
Plug-in hybrid cars use more fuel than figures claim
Electric-car battery material could harm key soil bacteria
Ultrasound can now monitor the health of your car engine
World gears up for electric cars despite bumps in the road
How to make electric vehicles that actually reduce carbon
Study of vehicle emissions will aid urban sustainability efforts
Understanding the life of lithium ion batteries in electric vehicles
Britain to ban sale of all diesel and petrol cars and vans from 2040
Gasoline worse than diesel when it comes to some types of air pollution
What Elon Musk did - and did not - do when he "opened" Tesla's patents
Interested in an electric car? Here's what you should know before you buy
Understanding electric car 'range anxiety' could be key to wider acceptance
Breakthrough CO2 technology eliminates vehicle exhaust fumes at the source
Car and van makers continue to meet EU CO2 emission targets ahead of schedule
Infrastructure & automoble shifts: ransit to reduce life-cycle impacts for urban sustainability goals
Trucks & Buses:
Electric buses in cities: driving towards cleaner air and lower CO2
Electric buses are coming, and they're going to help fix 4 big urban problems
CO2 capture from internal combustion engine exhaust using temperature swing adsorption
Self-Driving Vehicles:
Driverless platoons
Not yet ready for prime time
How a driversless car sees the road
Driverless cars: who gets protected?
Road weather and autonomous vehicles
The automobile as the next smart device
Vehicle telematics: the good, bad, and ugly
Self-driving cars coming sooner than you think
Study pours cold water on AI driving algorithms
How software architects drive connected vehicles
Self-drive trucks 'future of Europe's busy highways'
Just one autonomous car will use 4 TB of data per day
Tougher US rules needed on autonomous cars: advocate
Pedestrians may run rampant in a world of self-driving cars
Automobile 2.0: reformulating the automobile as an IT system
Somebody's watching you: the surveillance of self-driving cars
Massive autonomous vehicle sensor data: what does it mean?
World's first integrated driverless technology trial launched in Austlralia
Graph databases lie at the heart of $7 trillion self-driving car opportunity
Taking back control of an autonomous car affects human steering behavior
AVs require socio-political acceptance - reflections on moral decision making
5-things to know about the future of Google's self-driving car company: Waymo
Framework for assessing potential safety impacts of automated driving systems
A virtual twin: can virtual drivers resembling the user increase trust in smart cars?
Our autonomous future: how driverless cars will be the first robots we learn to trust
US House subcommittee approves self-driving legislation pre-empting State regulations
Roadways & other Infrastructure:
Flood risk in road networks
Millions of planned roads shouldn't be built
Road map aims to cut environmental impact
Roads could help rather than harm the environment
Can Norway win the global race to build a 'floating tunnel'?
Bike-sharing programs hit the streets in over 500 cities worldwide
Could moving walkways be the key to car-free cities of the future?
The global macroeconomic burden of road injuries: estimates and projections for 166 countries
Fuel Cells:
Hydrogen may prove fuel of the future
Is fuel-cell technology the new holy grail?
Electronic entropy enhances water splitting
New fuel cell technology runs on solid carbon
Green hydrogen is bubbling with hype - again
A new strategy for efficient hydrogen production
Solar fuels - photocatalytic hydrogen generation
New technique for turning sunlight into hydrogen
Are fuel cells environmetally friendly? Not always!
Are hydrogen fuel cell vehicles the future of autos?
Hydrogen cars quickened by Copenhagen chemists
Catalyst advance could lead to economical fuel cells
Scientists discover quick recipe for producing hydrogen
Managing the transition to hydrogen and fuel cell vehicles
New water-splitting method could open path to hydrogen economy
Fuel cell advance a breath of fressh air for future power alternative
New, inexpensive production materials boost promise of hydrogen fuel
Discovery adapts natural membrane to make hydrogen fuel from water
SUN-to-LIQUID produces solar kerosene from sunlight, water and CO2
Researchers split water into hydrogen, oxygen using light, nanoparticles
This company may have solved one of the hardest problems in clean energy
Four-stroke engine cycle produces hydrogen from methane and captures CO2
How hydrogen power can help us cut emissions and drive further between refills
Impact of H2-based transportation on composition & chemiistry of the atmosphere: stratospheric ozone
Aviation:
Electroflight
Can jet fuel grow on trees?
Radiation hazards from flying
The Swiss aviation ecosystem
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) market study
Why electric airplanes are about to take off
Civil aviation, air pollution and human health
Designing the fuel-efficient aircraft of the future
In a warming world, keeping the planes running
Subscale glider validating new wing design method
Cathay Pacific to cut emissions with switch to biofuel
First-ever global deal struck on airline CO2 emissions
Air traffic growth set to outpace carbon reduction efforts
ZeroAvia's maiden hydrogen-powered flight approaches
Airplanes could cut emissions by being better wind-surfers
Liquid hydrogen may be way forward for sustainable air travel
Research could save commercial airlines billions in new era of aviation
It's time to wake up to the devastating impact flying has on the environment
Can cockpit automation cause pilots to lose critical thinking skills? Research says yes
Uncovering the 'myths' behind technological solutions to aviation's climate change crisis
NASA:
NASA Urban Air Mobility
NASA's X-48 project completes flight research for cleaner, quieter aircraft
'Concept to reality': NASA marks milestones in development of electric X-57
NASA's magnetic materials lab moves evolution of energy coversion forward
X-57 Maxwell electric propulsion aircraft fuselage arrives at NASA in California
Marine Transport:
PlanetSolar
Marine traffic website
Global ship traffic seen from space
Worldwide ship traffic up 300% since 1992
Ahoy! Crewless ships are just over the horizon
Ships going slow to reduce their NOx emissions
Optimizing hydrogen-powered passenger ferries
Viability of vehicles utilizing on-board CO2 capture
New shipping route shows China's Arctic ambitions
Satellites paint a detailed picture of maritime activity
A warming world could add billions to shipping costs
Maritime industry shifting to more efficient electric propulsion
World shipping industry agrees to halve carbon emissions by 2050
International shipping should cut air pollutants and green house gases together
REGIONAL:
North America:
Electric buses - Oregon State report
NYC: ride sharing could cut cabs' road time by 30%
New concepts for hydrogen fueling stations take form
Fuel cell buses in US transit fleets: current status 2018
Potential Impacts of climate change on US transportation
US transportation energy futures - project overview and findings
California: addressing climate change adaptation in regional transportation plans
US transportation energy futures points to deep cuts in petroleum and emissions
High-speed rail with emerging automobiles & aircraft reduce environmental impacts in California’s future
Europe:
EU NEMO Project
Germany, world champion in car-sharing
Hydrogen-powered vehicles in Switzerland
Germany rolls out world's first hydrogen train
EU Impact Assessment: high capacity vehicles
Adaptation of transport to climate change in Europe
Cargo bikes: pedal power the rise of cargo bikes in Germany
Hopes that hydrogen can power EU's climate-neutral economy
The cost of extreme weather to the European Transport System
Reducing the 45 billion euro health cost of air pollution from lorries
1000 electric buses to spearhead Paris goal of 100% zero emisions public transportation
Decarbonizing urban transport in European cities: four cases show possible high co-benefits
Middle East:
Transiting the Suez Canal
Asia:
Shanghai's maglev high-speed train
South Korea tests "electric road" for public buses
Toyota rolls out world's first mass market fuel-cell car
Chinese bike-sharing start-up aims global with new model
Asia: changing course in urban transport: an illustrated guide
Environmental impact of EVs in China? It depends on how they are charged
Japan now home to more electric vehicle charging stations than gas stations
Effect of adoption of electric vehicles on public health and air pollution in China: a modelling study
Researchers find China’s pollution related to e-cars may be more harmful than gasoline cars
Need for “smart urban transport” to combat climate change in the People’s Republic of China
ANZ:
South Australia's hydrogen action plan
Dutch team win Australian solar car race
Australia sees big opportunity in hydrogen energy