Climate Change Challenges (CCC) International Transport Webinars 2022
From August 2020 to October 2021, CHTS and TRB co-sponsored a series of seven (7) international webinars as part of the Mobility Management Meeting (MMM). These webinars were organized with the support of international partner organizations including COTA, ECTRI, ERTICO-ITS Europe, IRF (Geneva), and PIARC, as well as Chinese universities, and institutes. The MMM webinars brought together 37 international expert speakers and 40 panelists, and were attended by more than 2,000 participants from more than 60 countries and regions.
On the basis and experience of successfully organizing MMM, the CHTS-TRB cooperation mechanism continues in 2022 by initiating the Climate Change Challenges (CCC) International Transport Webinars. We believe that during times like this, it is even more important for our institutions to be working together to provide our researchers and professionals opportunities to communicate with each other and collaborate on themes of common interest. We look forward to involving all relevant stakeholders, including national and local authorities, local communities, indigenous peoples, vulnerable groups, academic and scientific communities, the private sector and civil society.
Transport enables connectivity at all levels among all countries, whether on land, at sea or in the air. It allows for community interaction, integrates markets and economies, enhances rural urban interlinkages, facilitates trade, supports supply chains and can strengthen and reinforce resilience. Transport can also generate negative impacts along several different dimensions of sustainable development. Figures from the International Energy Agency show that, about a quarter of energy-related global greenhouse gas emissions are generated by transport1. However, these emissions are projected to grow substantially in the years to come, further exacerbating climate change, unless properly addressed. As transport activity has begun to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, the worsening crisis of climate change is triggering intentional changes towards carbon neutrality and resilience. It will be a chance for all actors to rethink passenger and freight transport and implement integrated solutions which can ensure that humanity lives in harmony with nature, within an emerging context of continuing globalization, urbanization, digitalization, and demographic change.
The first webinar in the series “Climate Change Challenges”, will be held on 9:00 PM EDT 28th June / 9:00 AM BT, 29th June, and will focus on the challenges of reducing carbon emissions from transportation activities through emerging ITS technologies. In this webinar, we will discuss different aspects of the interaction between transport and the environment, from localized to global impacts, and will look to address questions such as: “How can the design of smart cities and emerging technologies help us reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions? How to quantify and monitor carbon emission from transport activities in the cities? What policies and schemes that promote green transport mobility can we implement?”
1. About CCC：
Date: June-November 2022
Platform: Zoom Online
Co-sponsors:
China Highway & Transportation Society (CHTS)
Transportation Research Board (TRB)
Co-organizers:
International Road Federation (IRF)
ERTICO – ITS Europe
The European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI)
Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA)
Belt and Road International Transport Alliance (BRITA)
Beijing University of Technology (BJUT)
Zhejiang University (ZJU)
Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU)
Wuhan University of Technology (WHUT)
Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU)
Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT)
2. Planned Webinars and Topics：
1. Climate Change Challenges
Transportation activities have a huge impact on the environment and create air quality problems in our urban environment. This webinar will focus on the challenges of reducing carbon emissions from transportation activities through emerging ITS technologies. In this webinar, we will discuss different aspects of the interaction between transportation and the environment, from localized to global impacts, and will look to address questions such as: How can the design of smart cities and emerging technologies help us reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions? How to quantify and monitor carbon emission from transportation activities in the cities? What policies and schemes that promote green transportation mobility can we implement?
Date and Time:
9:00 PM EDT 28th June / 9:00 AM BT, 29th June
Host:
China Highway & Transportation Society (CHTS)
Transportation Research Board (TRB)
Zhejiang University
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(More details to be determined in coming program)
2. Resilience of Urban Transportation Systems - Strength in Diversification
The urban transportation network is an integrated network in which multiple transportation modes are intertwined and interacted with each other. In the face of the impact of urban emergencies on the transportation system, this webinar aims to decouple the resilience relationship between the multi-layer cyber-physical networks of urban transportation, expound the networks' Risk-Resilience-Sustainability linkage characteristics, put forward evaluation tools and technical methods for integrated network resilience, and improve urban multiple network resilience, etc. The main topics of this webinar will focus on the theoretical and practical aspects of urban transportation system resilience evaluation methods, enhancement measures, emergency response, and decision support.
Date: The 4th week of July
3. Decarbonization
Increased air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are causing many climate change challenges, such as rising temperature, melting polar ice, rising sea levels, and declining biodiversity. They also adversely affect public health, local ecology, and the global climate. Decarbonization of the transport sector would thus help create a cleaner, healthier and more sustainable future for everyone. This webinar will focus on policy actions, new technologies, and innovative methods for low-carbon transport development and evaluating the impacts on air pollutant and GHG emissions reduction, including new clean and low-carbon transport systems, developed by using emerging technologies. In addition, the webinar will discuss experiences on designing and implementing low-carbon transport policies in megacities around the world.
Date: The 4th week of September
4. ITS / IoT
Decarbonization of transport and promoting a green and low-carbon oriented transition of transportation and achieving sustainable development have been hot topics. Designed to promote the rapid and practical implementation of scientific and research findings that support sustainable development of transportation and help achieve the global goals on climate. this webinar will discuss the role of ITS and IoT in the decarbonization of transport and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. study with system composed of human-vehicles-road-environment and discuss issues as safety, congestion management, energy saving and environment protection etc.
Date: The 4th week of October
5. EVs & EV Infrastructure Data - Driven Economy and Safety Evaluation for Battery Electric Vehicles
As a promising solution to achieve the commitment for carbon-neutral & carbon zero worldwide, the global electric vehicle (EV) market share has taken a tremendous leap forward in the past few years. However, to make the EV as competitive as its ICE counterparts, the driving range per charge and charging convenience are two key questions to answer. With the rapid development of big data technology applications in the automotive sector, the proposed webinar is expected to provide a platform to share the latest developments on powertrain design and battery safety control for battery electric vehicles. This webinar will explore ways to extend the driving range by optimizing the powertrain structure and parameters without increasing the expensive and heavy battery packs; The topic will also cover the data-driven battery safety control techniques including battery state-of-health estimation, cell inconsistency evaluation and fault diagnosis.
Date: The 4th week of November
3. Organization and Participation
Each webinar will be jointly organized with different international organizations, Chinese domestic universities, research institutions and enterprises and allow for a multi-lateral exchange of knowledge. For more information on the Climate Change Challenges (CCC) Webinar Series, please contact the International Cooperation Department of CHTS which functions as the CCC office at info@chts.cn.
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