Transport
Transportation requires over 1300 PJ annually in Australia, exceeded only by the manufacturing sector in terms of end-use consumption. The looming prospect of peak oil, coupled with the imperative to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will have a huge impact on transportation practices. The extent to which current transport modes can be preserved under such conditions is one of the most challenging questions facing modern societies.
The Melbourne Energy Institute will focus interdisciplinary research on some of the central problems entailed in transport and human mobility. Our research themes can be roughly divided into areas of technical development on the one hand, and transport planning and systems on the other.
These efforts will contribute to the coming generations of internal-combustion, hybrid, and electric vehicles, enabling better efficiency, fuel adaptation and energy storage options. On the planning level, collaboration with key research groups within the University of Melbourne, and more broadly, will help to facilitate the move towards integrated public transport, this being a key systemic change dictated by resource and environmental constraints.
The Melbourne Energy Institute will focus interdisciplinary research on some of the central problems entailed in transport and human mobility. Our research themes can be roughly divided into areas of technical development on the one hand, and transport planning and systems on the other.
These efforts will contribute to the coming generations of internal-combustion, hybrid, and electric vehicles, enabling better efficiency, fuel adaptation and energy storage options. On the planning level, collaboration with key research groups within the University of Melbourne, and more broadly, will help to facilitate the move towards integrated public transport, this being a key systemic change dictated by resource and environmental constraints.
