Seminar with Prof. Margarida Coelho
You are cordially invited to the hEAT lab seminar on the 25th of May 2021, 15:00-16.00hr CET. Prof. Margarida Coelho From University of Aveiro, Portugal will give a talk about Smart and Sustainable Mobility. In the following, you can find the meeting registration link as well as more information about the seminar and the presenter.
Date: Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
Time: 15:00-16:00 CET
Speaker: Prof. Margarida Coelho From University of Aveiro, Portugal
Title: Emissions Impacts Assessment for a Smart and Sustainable Mobility
Attend the online seminar upon pre-registration.
Abstract
According to the European Commission Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy, the objectives by 2030 are that at least 30 million zero-emission cars will be in operation on European roads, 100 European cities will be climate neutral and automated mobility will be deployed at large scale. By 2050 the intention is that nearly all cars, vans, buses and new heavy-duty vehicles will be “zero-emissions”. However, the dependency from conventional fuels is still a reality for road transport. About 73% of greenhouse gases emissions from transport sector are related with road transport in Europe. Also, around 400 000 deaths in Europe per year are attributable to air pollution.
The main objectives of this seminar will be threefold: 1) to explain the main concepts related to pollutant emissions from road vehicles; 2) to describe some of the most recent methods for a proper and detailed emissions quantification; 3) to present recent and on-going research on emission impacts developed by the Smart Mobility research team of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Aveiro, Portugal, also involving the implementation of smart mobility applications and automated vehicles.
Resume
Prof. Margarida Coelho is Assistant Professor with Habilitation of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Aveiro, Portugal, and Vice-Director of the Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation of the same institution.
Margarida Coelho finished her PhD at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) - Technical University of Lisbon in 2005, within a partnership between IST and the Institute for Transportation Research and Education, of North Carolina State University, USA.
She is the Scientific Coordinator of the research team on Smart mobility at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She completed her Habilitation on Mechanical Engineering in September 2020. Her research interests are: impacts of transportation systems (namely, traffic congestion, energy consumption, pollutant emissions and road safety), smart mobility, life cycle assessment and active mobility.
Margarida Coelho has more than 70 scientific papers published in international journals (such as the Science for Total Environment, Sustainable Cities and Society, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, International Journal on Sustainable Transportation, Accident Analysis and Prevention, Applied Energy, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Atmospheric Environment, Transportation Research Record, etc), besides more than 130 papers in book chapters and proceedings of scientific conferences.
Margarida Coelho has had extensive participation in transport related projects. She is the PI of R&D Projects funded by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) and the Luso-American Foundation / United States National Science Foundation (which involved partnerships with the Institute for Transportation Research and Education of North Carolina State University, the Old Dominion University and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory). She is also a participating member in several projects funded by FCT, SUDOE and INTERREG Europe Programmes. She already supervised 5 PhD students and more than 50 Master students.
She is an Expert on Energy and Transportation recognized by the Portuguese Association of Engineering. She is the Chairwoman of EWGT2021 - EURO Working Group on Transportation Annual Meeting.
