Essays about: "car dependency"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 essays containing the words car dependency.

  1. 1. Impact of solar-mounted truck on the grid

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för elektroteknik

    Author : Gayathri Radhakrishnan Nair; [2023]
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    Abstract : Sweden has a climatic goal to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases by 2045. One of the major contributors to carbon dioxide emissions is the transportation sector, out of which the major share lies in the heavy freight sector. READ MORE

  3. 2. Freight Transport in the Car-Free City : Towards a more sustainable urban freight sector

    University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

    Author : Melisa Marta; [2023]
    Keywords : Car-free city; sustainable urban freight transport; urban consolidation center; cargo bicycles;

    Abstract : Freight transport of goods is an indispensable part of everyday life. Without it there would be no delivery of products such as food, water, construction material, technology, furniture, clothes and society, as we know it today, would collapse.  However, there are more and less sustainable ways of transporting goods. READ MORE

  4. 3. Defossilise Väster – Testing a fossil free urbanity for the debate

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

    Author : August Grundtman; [2023]
    Keywords : urban design; public space; climate change; transport; walkability; neighbourhood; fossil free; proximity; car free; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : Humanity is facing one of the greatest challenges ever. Climate change and global warming is a great risk and our consumption and dependency of fossil fuel are important causes of this accelerating issue. My thesis aims to design an entry for the professional debate about what urban areas in a fossil free future might be like. READ MORE

  5. 4. The voluntary carless and their leisure mobility

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle

    Author : Anton Florén Göransson; [2022-08-17]
    Keywords : Carless; non-car owners; everyday mobility; leisure mobility; sustainable mobility; time geography; constraints;

    Abstract : In the strive to decrease car dependence, novel ways of thinking about mobility is needed. In this regard, much can be learned from those who voluntarily have refrained from car ownership. However, few studies have focused on the leisure mobility habits of this group in particular. READ MORE

  6. 5. Driving the transition: Intermediary actors in the grassroots e-carsharing niche of rural Germany.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Max Jürgen Halbwachs; [2022]
    Keywords : Sustainability Science; Electric car sharing; Socio-technical transitions; Intermediary actors; Sustainable mobility; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Rural Germany is massively dependent on fossil fuel driven cars. But in many villages, socio-technical innovations have emerged to tackle this dependency. Electric carsharing, often organised in grassroots-settings, is one of them. READ MORE