Mobility and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Partnerships for Innovation through Bottom-up Modelling and Monitoring at Local Levels

该项目促进了街头温室气体排放建模和监测方面科学知识的共同发展，建立了政府-大学伙伴关系，以加速研究数据、方法和工具的流动和交流，从而探索城市规模的减缓机会。该项目将学者与跨领域的研究专业知识，包括运输工程和规划，工业工程，计算机科学和供应链分析相结合。这项研究将提供新斯科舍省多个城市的温室气体排放量的估计，并探讨各种模型集成方法，解决科学和技术的挑战。它还将探索更新的数据收集技术，用于地方一级的模型验证和社会经济分析。这项研究的科学贡献将有助于弥补跟踪和监测温室气体排放随时间变化的差距，并为减缓政策提供信息。该项目将培训9名高素质人员（即，两名博士，四名硕士，三名本科生）和一名博士后研究员，同时为跨学科对话提供包容性环境。将采用伙伴关系办法，将联合收割机的学术和专业知识结合起来，以提高综合排放模型在跟踪地方一级温室气体减排进展方面的有效性。这项研究建立在我们与哈利法克斯地区市政府和新斯科舍省的多年合作伙伴关系。合作伙伴带来了共计32，000美元的实物捐助，导致积极参与项目的设计和实施，并协助交付研究成果。人力资源管理局还将提供86，448美元的现金捐款，以帮助实现该项目的科学目标。合作伙伴将受益于项目数据、模型和调查结果的使用，以告知其政策和方案中概述的监测协议（例如，HalifACT是一项新的气候行动计划），温室气体量化的分析工作，公平评估和减缓战略的测试，以实现加拿大到2050年的净零排放目标。

This project advances the co-development of scientific knowledge in modelling and monitoring of street-level greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), creating government-university partnerships to accelerate the flow and exchange of research data, methods and tools to explore mitigation opportunities at the municipal scale. The project integrates scholars with cross-cutting research expertise that includes transportation engineering and planning, industrial engineering, computer science, and supply chain analytics. This research will provide an estimation of GHG emissions for multiple municipalities in Nova Scotia and explore a variety of model integration methods that address scientific and technical challenges. It will also explore newer data collection techniques for model validation and socio-economic analysis at the local level. The scientific contribution of this research will help to bridge the gap in tracking, and monitoring of changes in GHG emissions over time and to inform mitigation policies. The project will train nine highly qualified personnel (i.e., two PhDs, four masters, three undergraduate students) and a post-doctoral fellow while providing an inclusive environment for interdisciplinary dialogues. A partnership approach will be used to combine academic and professional knowledge in a way that improves the effectiveness of the integrated emissions models for tracking progress in GHG reduction at the local level. This research builds upon our multi-year partnership with the Halifax Regional Municipality and the Province of Nova Scotia. The partners bring a total of $32,000 in-kind contribution, leading to active involvement in design, and implementation of the project and assisting in delivery of research outcomes. HRM will also be contributing a cash contribution of $86,448 to help achieve the scientific objectives of the project. Partners will benefit from the use of project data, models and findings to inform monitoring protocols outlined in their policy and programs (e.g., HalifACT, a new climate action plan), analytical efforts for GHG quantification, equity assessments and testing of mitigation strategies to achieve Canada's goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.