Transportation energy: What policy and planning can contribute to greater efficiency, energy security, and carbon neutrality
 

November 22, 3:30 - 5:00 pm

  

Sutherland Hall, Room 202

  

Francis M. Vanek, Ph.D, will speak about how to achieve a long term stable and cost-effective transportation energy supply that is also carbon-neutral. 

Topics will include: 

• changes to the light-duty highway vehicle sector (i.e. passenger cars, vans, sport-utility vehicles, etc)
• increased use of hybrids and electrification to eliminate CO2 emissions and diversify energy sources
• rethinking current passenger transportation infrastructures
• integration of more public and non-motorized transport
• changes to urban land use planning and policy to reduce carbon consumption
• freight energy consumption alternatives

Francis M. Vanek, Ph.D, is a Senior Lecturer for the Departments of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Systems Engineering Program at Cornell University and a specialist in the areas of energy efficiency, alternative energy, and energy for transportation. He is also the co-author of "Energy Systems Engineering: Evaluation and Implementation", 2008, McGraw Hill Professional.