Global Centers Track 1: CLEETS - CLean Energy and Equitable Transportation Solutions

全球中心轨道 1：CLEETS - 清洁能源和公平运输解决方案

• 批准号: EP/Y026233/1
• 负责人: Jonathan Radcliffe
• 金额: $ 676.67万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY026233%2F1
• 关键词: Global; Centers; Track; CLEETS; CLean

Transport energy demand accounts for 24% of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK, the single largest sector, more than energy supply, business or residential. 90% of these transport emissions are from road transport: 52% from cars, 16% from vans, and 19% from HGVs. Clean energy solutions are becoming available, in particular through battery electric vehicles and the use of hydrogen. They will have a wide societal impact, bringing benefits through reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and on local air quality to improve health outcomes.However, there are multiple barriers to deployment of these technologies, including how such a system transformation that relies on expensive and extensive infrastructure change can be implemented, and there are risks that uptake of the solutions will have unequal benefits for different communities.The Global Center on CLean Energy and Equitable Transportation Solutions (CLEETS) will provide the evidence base for decision making for transport decarbonization, from rigorous interdisciplinary research on, and robust analysis of, the potential clean energy solutions, their impacts across society, and how to overcome the challenges of implementation.The West Midlands and South Wales regions of the UK, and the Great Lakes Megaregion, are road transport hubs, with significant manufacturing industries including in the automotive sector. Patterns of transport demand, and political structures are different, but the ambitions to decarbonize are shared. The regions will be case study areas that allow us to test methodologies and develop system solutions that can be applied globally. Research is needed to improve our understanding of how we can decarbonize transport equitably, and what impacts that will have. Our research will be delivered through 'Thrusts' in:- Clean and equitable transportation: studying the interventions required to deploy clean energy transportation technologies, and modelling emissions at a local scale. - Transport energy infrastructure: assessing how to achieve net-zero infrastructure resilience in transportation and energy systems, and resource implications of the technologies. - Climate change: analysing the cascading effects of decarbonizing transport, helping to mitigate climate change impacts, reduce vulnerability to hazardous events and improve health outcomes. Crosscutting research will consider issues across these Thrusts, integrating and converging knowledge from the project as a whole, in the UK and US:- Decision support tools for energy and climate justice: by developing a visual analytics decision support tool that integrates participatory and iterative design approaches.- Public health and economic impact of decarbonization pathways: our assessment of health impacts, disease cases, and economic costs will combine the WM-Air Air Quality Lifecourse Assessment Tool with the decision-support toolkit.- Governance and policy to support decarbonization pathways, including regulation, funding, taxation, and research, where local governments will play an important role in shepherding innovation to maturity.- Data and cyber security: building a platform that understands the multiplied dependencies between transport, energy and smart city systems. - Coupled Infrastructure Systems: developing a model for energy-transportation transitions, including the 'hard' engineering infrastructure, and 'soft' infrastructure of institutions and organisational structures. The project will also have an educational platform, allowing for the exchange of undergraduate and postgraduate students between the UK and US, and to learn from the research being undertaken by research groups in both countries.

交通能源需求占英国温室气体排放量的24%，是最大的单一部门，超过能源供应，商业或住宅。其中90%的交通排放来自公路运输：52%来自汽车，16%来自货车，19%来自重型货车。清洁能源解决方案正在出现，特别是通过电池电动汽车和使用氢。它们将产生广泛的社会影响，通过减少温室气体排放带来好处，并改善当地空气质量以改善健康结果。然而，部署这些技术存在多种障碍，包括如何实施这种依赖于昂贵和广泛的基础设施变革的系统转型，而且，采用这些解决方案可能会给不同的社区带来不平等的利益。清洁能源和公平运输解决方案全球中心（CLEETS）将为交通脱碳决策提供证据基础，从严格的跨学科研究和强大的分析，潜在的清洁能源解决方案，其对社会的影响，以及如何克服实施的挑战。英国的西米德兰兹和南威尔士地区，以及五大湖，是公路运输枢纽，拥有包括汽车行业在内的重要制造业。运输需求模式和政治结构不同，但脱碳的雄心是共同的。这些地区将成为案例研究领域，使我们能够测试方法并开发可在全球应用的系统解决方案。需要进行研究，以提高我们对如何公平地使交通脱碳以及这将产生什么影响的理解。我们的研究将通过“推力”在交付：-清洁和公平的运输：研究部署清洁能源运输技术所需的干预措施，并在当地规模的排放建模。- 运输能源基础设施：评估如何在交通和能源系统中实现零基础设施复原力，以及这些技术对资源的影响。- 气候变化：分析运输脱碳的级联效应，帮助减轻气候变化的影响，减少对危险事件的脆弱性，并改善健康结果。交叉研究将考虑这些主题中的问题，整合和融合英国和美国整个项目的知识：-能源和气候正义的决策支持工具：通过开发集成参与式和迭代设计方法的可视化分析决策支持工具。脱碳途径的公共卫生和经济影响：我们对健康影响、疾病病例和经济成本的评估将联合收割机WM-空气质量生命周期评估工具与决策支持工具包相结合。支持脱碳途径的治理和政策，包括监管、资金、税收和研究，地方政府将在引导创新走向成熟方面发挥重要作用。-数据和网络安全：构建一个平台，了解交通、能源和智慧城市系统之间的多重依赖关系。- 耦合基础设施系统：开发能源运输转型的模型，包括“硬”工程基础设施和机构和组织结构的“软”基础设施。该项目还将有一个教育平台，允许英国和美国之间的本科生和研究生交流，并从两国研究小组正在进行的研究中学习。