Prof. Bruno Dalla Chiara (Dept. DIATI, Transport systems, Politecnico di Torino) - BDC
Module Learning Objectives and Skill Acquisition
This module consists of three parts.
The 1st one deals with basic concepts of transport sustainability, in terms of planning, operations and technologies, with reference to:
- Energy consumption of each transport mode, energy carriers for vehicles, ships and aircrafts, new powertrains as well as mitigation aspects in climate change;
- Transport planning, with reference to mode choice in favour of less polluting mobility and transport;
- Transport networks, in terms of adaptation in presence of anomalous events as well as mitigation, in terms of control of traffic flows when disruptions occur.
The 2nd part deals with global transport and logistics, shipping and containerisation with related environmental issues. Given high volumes of handled freight, both at international level and at local scale, when cargoes of ships are reversed on roads and rails, the impact on traffic, energy consumption and consequent emissions is utmost. The application of optimization techniques represents a key point for improving the sustainability of transport chains, which may bring to massive mitigations, besides traffic reductions.
The 3rd part allows the attendants to apply to practical cases, through:
- data collected directly on-board through an OBD II scanner, applied on automobiles;
- optimisation of transport and shipments and analysis of CO2 emissions, using two software packages.