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JULY 13, 2016

The 2016 Billion-Ton Report , volume 1, updates and expands upon analysis in the 2011 US Billion-Ton Update ( earlier post ), which was preceded by the 2005 US Billion Ton Study ( earlier post ). The Billion Ton 2016 is the third in the series of these Billion Ton reports. billion tons under a high-yield scenario.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

President Barack Obama’s 2016 Budget requests $29.9 The FY 2016 DOE Budget Request represents a 9% increase ($2.5 billion, the FY 2016 Budget requests $4.8 billion, the FY 2016 Budget Request provides $5.34 billion for the US Department of Energy (DOE). billion) above the FY 2015 enacted level. Within the $10.7

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JANUARY 5, 2018

Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). l/100 km), unchanged from 2016. The University of Michigan Eco-Driving Index (EDI)—an index that estimates the average monthly emissions of greenhouse gases generated by an individual US driver—was 0.83

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JUNE 19, 2020

A team of researchers, led by Professor Gavin Shaddick at the University of Exeter, has shown that, despite global efforts to improve air quality, half of the world’s population is exposed to increasing air pollution. in 2016; (b) Changes in concentrations between 2010 and 2016. a)Map of global PM 2.5 Units for both are ?g/m

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MARCH 30, 2022

Danish Minister for Transport Trine Bramsen, Aalborg municipal government representatives, and European media were invited to witness the first test runs of Geely methanol vehicles on Danish roads and visit the e-methanol production facility at Aalborg University.

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DECEMBER 8, 2021

Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. Total consumption (millions of gallons). Consumption per capita. Consumption per capita (gallons). The maximum consumption per capita (505 gallons) was reached in 1978.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2015

University of Michigan will award more than $1 million in grant funding to technologies that demonstrate high potential for solving transportation's toughest challenges. The Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization Transportation ( MTRAC ) program, in partnership with the Michigan Economic Development Corp.,

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JUNE 8, 2017

Transdev, a leading global provider of mobility services, and Delphi Automotive PLC have entered into a commercial partnership to develop a global, fully automated, mobility-on-demand (AMoD) transport system. In 2016, Transdev had a turnover of €6.7 Earlier post.). billion euros.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and partners will present their new prototype of an electric four-wheel drive utility vehicle designed for Africa—the aCar — at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt next month. Augustine University of Tanzania (SAUT) Tanzania. and Hydraulik KG.

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JULY 9, 2019

The arrival of ridehailing is associated with an increase of approximately 3 percent in the number of motor vehicle fatalities and fatal accidents, according to research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Rice University. From the study, Barrios et al.

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MAY 11, 2017

The California Energy Commission awarded more than $24 million in grants today for clean energy freight transportation projects in Los Angeles and Long Beach and more than $12 million for other clean transportation projects. Recipients included Motiv Power Systems, Inc.,

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JANUARY 11, 2018

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Volvo Buses will begin testing autonomous electric passenger buses in Singapore in 2019. For Volvo, this will be its first autonomous application in public transportation anywhere in the world.

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MAY 2, 2022

Accompanying the lower noise levels from bus traffic was a reduction of fatigue, day time sleepiness and low mood, a study at the University of Gothenburg shows. Noise levels from the preceding system of bus transportation had been perceived as disturbing, especially on the uphill stretches. —Kerstin Persson Waye. 10(15):5205.

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JULY 11, 2016

While the industrial sector in the US has made solid advances in reducing greenhouse gas emissions over the past 25 years, the transportation sector has increased its carbon footprint, according to an analysis by researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). in 1990 to 65.0%

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JANUARY 30, 2023

The consortium has been collaborating with the Abu Dhabi Department of Energy, Etihad Airways, Lufthansa Group, and Khalifa University of Science and Technology, on a demonstration initiative for e-SAF. The consortium has now zoned in on the methanol to jet (MTJ) pathway as its chosen technology route.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The energy intensity of a transportation mode is calculated by dividing the amount of fuel used by the number of passenger miles traveled and converting the result into a common measure—Btu (British thermal units) per passenger mile traveled. by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research. The flying data are for domestic operations of U.S.

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JULY 16, 2015

Solar Impulse, the solar-powered electric aircraft attempting to fly around the world, will be grounded in Hawaii until early spring 2016 due to damage to the batteries which overheated in the record-breaking oceanic flight from Nagoya to Hawaii. The Round-The-World mission will resume early April from Hawaii to the USA West Coast.

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JULY 3, 2017

Improving the efficiency of road-freight transport is critical to reducing the growth in oil demand, carbon emissions and air pollution over the next decades, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest report, The Future of Trucks: Implications for energy and the environment. Modern Truck Scenario.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) This decline likely reflects the increased proportion of light trucks among the vehicles sold, they suggested. The model year 2016 average was 25.3 The model year 2016 average was 25.3 in July 2016, down 0.01

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JUNE 6, 2017

l/100 km)—unchanged from April and the same as a year ago, according to the latest monthly report from Dr. Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). The average fuel economy (window-sticker value) of new vehicles sold in the US in May was 25.3 mpg from the peak of 25.5

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JUNE 18, 2022

Optodot licensed its 1 st Generation boehmite ceramic battery patents to LG Chem in 2016; Optodot is also a portfolio company of LG Technology Ventures. Development work is also conducted at the Roll-to-Roll Fabrication and Processing core facility at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

In this analysis, I examined recent changes in the contribution of transportation to total greenhouse gas emissions in the United States relative to the other sources of emissions (industry, commercial, residential, and agriculture). The analysis is an update of a study published in 2016. Total emissions exclude emissions from U.S.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Changing the microstructure in magnesium alloys improves their corrosion resistance, and so improves the possibilities for the transport sector to use these materials to decrease the weight of vehicles, according to work done by Mohsen Esmaily, researcher in Atmospheric Corrosion at Chalmers University in Sweden. —Mohsen Esmaily.

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MAY 9, 2019

Researchers from the University of Kentucky and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority have determined that, contrary to the concept and vision, transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft are the biggest contributor to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco. Erhardt et al. Erhardt et al.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

A new study by a team from the University of Pennsylvania and MIT suggests it will be easier for cities to reduce CO 2 emissions coming from residential energy use rather than from local transportation. In transportation, cities can’t make up for the loss of a national strategy.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). The value for October 2016 is up by 4.7 The value for October 2016 is up by 4.7 in August 2016, down 0.01 from the value for July 2016 (the lower the value the better).

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AUGUST 30, 2016

The agreement will make Oak Ridge-based LeMond Composites the first company to offer carbon fiber produced by the process to the transportation, renewable energy, and infrastructure markets. ORNL began accepting license applications in March 2016. Jackson and several of her ORNL teammates joined LeMond Composites in 2016.

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MARCH 6, 2017

l/100 km)—unchanged from the value for January, according to the latest monthly report from Dr. Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). in December 2016, unchanged from the value for November 2016 (the lower the value the better).

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MARCH 12, 2021

Launched in 2016, ARPA-E’s NEXTCAR program focuses on reducing vehicle energy consumption by developing Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) technologies that optimize vehicle dynamic controls and powertrain operation, allowing a vehicle to automatically process and react to its surrounding environment, traffic conditions and nearby vehicles.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The distribution of California’s clean vehicle rebates across different socioeconomic groups has been uneven, with higher income groups more likely to receive rebates, according to a new study by a team from the University of California, Berkeley. —Rubin and St-Louis (2016). public transportation or car- sharing).

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AUGUST 5, 2016

The average fuel economy (window-sticker value) of new vehicles sold in the US in July 2016 was 25.4 mpg from the value for June 2016, according to the latest monthly report from Dr. Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). in May 2016, down 0.03

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JULY 6, 2016

The average fuel economy (window-sticker value) of new vehicles sold in the US in June 2016 was 25.3 mpg from the value for May 2016, according to the latest monthly report from Dr. Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). in April 2016, up 0.01

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APRIL 4, 2016

The average fuel economy (window-sticker value) of new vehicles sold in the US in March 2016 was 25.3 l/100km)—unchanged from the revised value for February 2016, according to the latest monthly report from Dr. Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).

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MARCH 9, 2016

Rice University researchers have determined a more effective way to use natural gas to reduce climate-warming emissions would be in the replacement of existing coal-fired power plants and fuel-oil furnaces rather than burning it in cars and buses. —Cohan and Sengupta (2016). Graphic by Tanyia Johnson/Rice University.

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MAY 4, 2016

The average fuel economy (window-sticker value) of new vehicles sold in the US in April 2016 was 25.2 mpg from the value for March 2016, according to the latest monthly report from Dr. Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). in February 2016, down 0.03

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JUNE 30, 2015

Twenty-one years later, the ARC, which operates as a consortium of six universities [ 2 ] collaborating with partners from both industrial and government sectors, gathered once again on the University of Michigan’s North Campus for its 21 st Annual Program Review. Footnotes. [ 1 ] Gilbert, D., Automotive Research Center.”

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). The University of Michigan Eco-Driving Index (EDI)—an index that estimates the average monthly emissions of greenhouse gases generated by an individual U.S. The value for January is up 5.0 mpg from the peak of 25.5

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