Technical Seminar on Transitioning to a Sustainable Transportation System in a Metropolitan Context

Technical Seminar:
Transitioning to a Sustainable Transportation System in a Metropolitan Context

Date, time & venue

21 February 2024 (Wednesday), 17:00-18:00, Seminar via Zoom Meeting

Organized by

HKIE Civil Division and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Programme Highlight

The majority of the global population dwells in urban areas. Fast urbanization has led to numerous sustainability-related issues, such as excess carbon emissions, air pollution, and environmental injustice, which are urgent to resolve in a climate-changing world. This research seminar demonstrates my interdisciplinary work on advancing urban sustainability. It starts from establishing a quantitative modeling framework for carbon and air pollution emissions from Canada’s largest metropolitan transportation system, the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Personal carbon footprint is combined with granular socio-economic, land use, and travel activity data to investigate the existing environmental and energy justice concerns, revealing the association between high social disadvantage and low mobility-related emissions. Other than modeling, this seminar presents how to sense and analyze urban system externalities in real-world urban environments.

Language

English

Fee

Free of Charge.

Speakers
Dr. An Wang is currently an assistant professor at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, PolyU. Previously, An worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Senseable City Lab, M.I.T. Before M.I.T., An earned his doctorate from the University of Toronto in 2020 and his master’s degree from McGill University in 2016. His interdisciplinary research focuses on the nexus of sustainable transportation systems, urban environmental sensing, and data-driven modeling techniques. His recent work explores urban sustainability issues in the metropolitan context. An’s research has been featured in multiple high-impact journals, including Atmospheric Environment, Environmental Science & Technology, and Applied Energy.

 
Registration & Enquiries

Please complete the on-line registration at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_57KzXcWOTvOiekMzetb-WA. The number of participants is limited to 500 on a first-come-first served basis. Priority will be given to members of the Civil Division.

Email registration will not be accepted. Successful applicants will be informed by email and provided a link to the Zoom Meeting at the designated time slot. Participants need to sign in using the membership no. and name entered at the time of registration. A CPD certificate will be issued 3 weeks after the seminar based on this membership no. and name.

For enquiries, please contact Mr. Alan Yan via email: alanyan@pyengineering.com.