Research objectives
- Explore the nexus of travel demand, energy use, air quality and carbon emissions at the individual, household, city and national levels;
- Examine the emergence and development of innovations that are expected to reduce energy demand and carbon emissions in passenger and freight transport;
- Understand how transport systems and practices can be made more resilient to climate change;
- Explore different long-term futures for low-carbon and resilient transport systems;
- Develop and apply multi-scale decision support systems and modelling tools;
- Make a practical contribution to policy making in the transport, climate, air quality and energy domains.
Current research projects
Recent research projects
The energy storage capacity of electric vehicles (EVs) presents new opportunities and value propositions for vehicle-to-grid (V2G) power system services. Potential benefits could include the alleviation of the need for generation and transmission investments and increases in network efficiency and energy security. These benefits arise as V2G technologies enable EVs to deliver electricity from their batteries back into the smart grid which can then be used to power homes and businesses.
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