Transport and sustainability

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Transport and sustainability provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 12 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

Overview
  • 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.

Syllabus
    • 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