Transport and sustainability

This free course, Transport and sustainability, explores the issues around sustainable transport and how the role of technology and society can interact to lower the overall impact of transport.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 The transport energy challenge
• 1 The transport energy challenge
• 2 Transport's environmental impacts
• 2 Transport's environmental impacts
• 3 Petrol and diesel engines
• 3 Petrol and diesel engines
• 4 Petrol and diesel emissions
• 4 Petrol and diesel emissions
• 4.1 Fuel performance
• 4.2 Technologies and standards
• 4.3 CO2 regulation
• 5 Cleaner conventional car technologies
• 5 Cleaner conventional car technologies
• 5.1 Low CO2 technologies
• 5.2 Hybrid vehicles
• 6 Lower-carbon fuels
• 6 Lower-carbon fuels
• CNG and LPG vehicles
• Biofuels
• Practical use
• Environmental impacts
• Problems
• Potential
• 7 Electric vehicles
• 7 Electric vehicles
• Battery electric vehicles
• 'Plug-in' electric/petrol hybrid
• Fuel cell vehicles
• FCVs in practice
• Getting FCVs established
• 8 Decarbonized transport
• 8 Decarbonized transport
• Conclusion
• References
• Further reading
• Acknowledgements