Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt
Title | Quantifying the carbon dioxide emissions resulting from awareness-raising actions of sustainable mobility |
Publication Type | Communications in International Conferences |
Year of Publication | 2019 |
Authors | Souza P., Paiva F., Silva L. T., and Pereira P. |
Abstract | Currently, the transport sector is a major contributor to global green-house gases emissions. The evaluation of projects that promote the decarboniza-tion in cities is mainly focused on calculating the reduction of CO2 emissions. The calculation methodology takes into account the characteristics of the city car fleet where these projects are implemented. In the case of the “SchoolBus” pro-ject, promoted by the Braga Municipal Council during the 2018-2019 school year, the average value of reduction was of 34.9 tonCO2eq/year. The number of vehicles circulating in the study area, the emission factor related to the type of vehicle and its fuel and the distance traveled by them were the main parameters used to calculate CO2 emissions. The impacts of the “SchoolBus” project on stakeholders and awareness-raising actions of sustainable mobility can be quan-tified in terms of CO2, by analyzing the population’s interest in joining more sus-tainable modes of transport. Thus, it is possible to evaluate the potential of the awareness-raising actions, applied in the study area, in the decarbonization in a larger area (i.e. the whole municipality). At the same time, it is possible to com-pare and analyze the calculated values in relation to the quantified potential range of effects of policy measures on CO2 emissions using transport demand for the year 2030, indicated by the European Commission and adapted to the area of study, by introducing measures of sustainable mobility in the territory. |
Conference Name | SC4Life |
Pagination | 1-17 |
Date Published | 2019-12-30 |
Conference Location | Braga |
URL | http://smartcity360.org/2019/demos/ |
Keywords | Cities decarbonization, Public partici-pation., Sustainable urban mobility |
Rights | openAccess |
Peer reviewed | yes |
Status | published |
The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.
Currently CTAC aggregates 24 researchers holding a PhD of which 20 are faculty professors of the Civil Engineering Department. Read more
Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt