Integrated Urban Transportation and Sustainable Cities: Fiction or Reality?

May 16, 2022  14:00 - 14:45

(GMT -5:00) Eastern Time

Event URL:  https://www.exploringbytheseat.com/lesson/integrated-urban-transportation-sustainable-cities-fiction-reality/
Hosted by: Exploring By The Seat of Your Pants

Imagine a city with flying vehicles, smart street crossings, tall and long bridges, subway trains and self-driving buses moving at high-speed. That sounds like fiction, or does it? Lina Kattan, professor of civil engineering at the University of Calgary's Schulich School of Engineering, and Director of the NSERC-CREATE Integrated Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities, explores how emerging technologies in transportation can be leveraged to improve system performance in a sustainable environment. In this session, you will learn how building-design, water and waste management, transportation and energy systems interact to build sustainable cities capable of addressing the most common urbanization problems like traffic congestion, pollution and road safety.