NREL Workshop Hosts Experts To Envision Tomorrow’s Sustainable Mobility Systems
in place to eliminate nearly all greenhouse gas emissions from the sector by 2050, interest in clean transportation technologies has skyrocketed. But the nation still faces a pressing question: Which energy-efficient mobility strategies will get us to the finish line in time?
The workshop convened some of the biggest players in the transportation space, including representatives from DOE and the U.S. Department of Transportation; cities, airports, and transit agencies; and NREL and university researchers. These participants brought challenges, opportunities, and solutions to the table across six major topics to help chart a course for the next phase of mobility systems research.Read key takeaways from the Envisioning Tomorrow’s Sustainable Mobility Systems workshop.
Short-term solutions, Garikapati said, include improving our infrastructure to make nonmotorized forms of travel viable. Longer-term solutions may require visionary thinking about land use and built environments in the United States. That might include clustering developments closer to the places people live and rezoning for mixed-use development.
metric; demonstrating how to integrate multimodal travel within transit systems; assessing novel modes with respect to technology, policy, business, and industry maturity; and helping to plan and deploy transit services for rural and disadvantaged communities.Freight — the movement of goods around the nation and world — creates an outsize share of transportation emissions, largely because the trucks, trains, boats, and planes that move goods are the world’s most fossil-fuel-dependent vehicles.
Greater data-sharing will be critical to support the deployment of these emerging technologies, which include advanced traffic control at intersections, automated valet parking service integrated with automated electric charging, and other methods of connecting cars to their environments.
A new modeling framework may help Dallas Fort Worth International Airport — and others in the future — design electric bus deployment strategies. Photo from DFW Airport.
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