WHAT:
At this workshop, expert speakers and participants will discuss potential energy savings from various transport energy efficiency policy options; the feasibility of a notional goal for reducing the energy intensity of transport in APEC member economies; and options with the greatest potential for energy savings. Expert speakers from many of the APEC economies will present on four panels:
- Energy Efficiency in New Vehicles
- Freight Efficiency
- Operational Efficiency for Existing Fleets
- Fostering Livable Communities
WHAT:
From the official website: Stanford will host an Electric and Fuel Cell Vehicle Showcase on April 7, 2010, at Stanford University in conjunction with the Stanford Energy Seminar and a course offered this spring on Sustainable Mobility: Improving Energy Efficiency and Reducing CO2 Emissions from Transport (Special Class Session). Included in the showcase are light duty vehicles running on batteries, and hydrogen fuel cells, as well as plug-in hybrid vehicles that both charge batteries from the grid and carry a fuel tank to run an engine when batteries run down.
Schipper: Fuel Economy or Fool's Economy?
A lecture by EMBARQ's founder, Lee Schipper, on important trends in the U.S. and other industrialized countries
This talk reports on several recent analyses of important trends in automobile fuel economy and usage as well as other modes of travel. The work reported on was supported by grants from EMBARQ and the Climate and Energy Program of the World Resources Institute. Among recent trends we note are these:
The 6th Forum on Diesel Engine Technology seeks to achieve greater sustainability in the future with regard to the diesel technology in Brazil.
Organized by the SAE Brasil, the forum will be attended by diesel industry professionals.
Arequipa - Vehicle Ban
Reducing Air Pollution
The Municipality of Arequipa recently banned the use of shared taxicabs, known as lanchones, older than 25 years old, in an effort to reduce air pollution and modernize public transport in the historic city. The new law prompted a citywide strike among all public transport operators.
This policy paper urges the Mexico city government to retire, replace, and retrofit its current fleet of buses that run on heavy diesel. It also emphasizes the need for PEMEX, Mexico's public oil company, to produce diesel with a lower sulfur content.
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As demand for transportation continues to rise at unprecedented rates, the need to compare alternative transport policies and their impacts on both CO2 emissions and local air pollution is becoming more and more critical.
Mexico City - Componente 3
Choosing the Right Fuels and Vehicles for Mexico City's Bus Fleet
EMBARQ’s work in Mexico co-funded a large World Bank/Global Environment Facility grant called Introduction of Climate Friendly Measures in the Transport Sector. Componente 3 of that project tested the performance of a range of different technologies in the high-altitude, stop-and-go conditions of Mexico City’s traffic.
Mexico City - Diesel Retrofit
A Cost-Effective Way to Improve Air Quality in the Mexican Capital
In 2004, EMBARQ and CTS-México, working with the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Mexico’s Secretary of the Environment, initiated a diesel retrofit project to show how new particulate filters, catalysts, and clean fuel could be used in Mexico City’s buses to reduce air pollution.
