How could electric vehicles transform cities?
How are advances in electric vehicles helping to build clean, sustainable and more livable cities? How are consumer attitudes towards electric vehicles changing?
On Wednesday April 20, learn more about these questions and more at The Critical Role for Electric Mobility, part of Climate Change and Environment: Navigating from Risk to Resilience (April 18-22), the next series of events in the Big Ideas, Better Cities series.
Hosted by the McMaster Institute for Transportation and Logistics (MITL), this one-day, free conference features McMaster, national and international experts and will explore how electric vehicles are poised to transform our everyday lives, impact our economic activities and help re-shape our cities locally and around the world.
In addition to keynote talks and panel discussions, experts from MITL will also present insights from Social Costs and Benefits of Electric Mobility in Canada, a five-year research survey of 20,000 households, the largest survey of its kind in the world, that looked at consumer attitudes toward electric vehicles.
Keynote speakers include:
Jillian Anable, Professor and Chair in Transport and Energy at the University of Leeds, is a leading world expert in consumer adoption of electric vehicles. She will focus on the experience of the United Kingdon to this point and the implications for other urban jurisdictions around the world.
Julian Marshall, Professor, Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, is an international expert on urban air pollution and its relationship to urban form. He will compare the life-cycle air quality impacts of electric versus conventional vehicles.
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Learn more about all Climate Change & Environment: Navigating from Risk to Resilience events taking place from April 18-22.
Big Ideas, Better Cities is a year-long series showcasing how McMaster research can help cities respond to 21st century challenges.
