Ridesharing links can boost transit use in the suburbs
Integrating ridesharing with transit in poorly serviced suburban neighbourhoods is an effective way to get people out of their cars and boost ridership.
Jan 10, 2020
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News tagged with environmental engineering
Energy & Green Tech
Supercharging tomorrow: Team develops world's most efficient lithium-sulfur battery
Imagine having access to a battery, which has the potential to power your phone for five continuous days, or enable an electric vehicle to drive more than 1000km without needing to "refuel".
Jan 03, 2020
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Smart intersections could cut autonomous car congestion
In the not-so-distant future, city streets could be flooded with autonomous vehicles. Self-driving cars can move faster and travel closer together, allowing more of them to fit on the road—potentially leading to congestion ...
Dec 16, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Smart buildings face challenges but have plenty of potential
We often hear the word "smart" applied to everyday objects: smartphones, smart TVs, smart appliances—and now, smart buildings.
Nov 20, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
A sustainable answer to industrial pollution? That's 'bananas!'
Penn State Harrisburg graduate students in environmental pollution control Rizki Prasetyaningtyas and Saskia Putri have been eating lots of bananas and oranges. So have their classmates at Penn State Harrisburg, as well as ...
Nov 19, 2019
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Engineering
Engineers help with water under the bridge and other tough environmental decisions
In two new papers, civil engineers explore how to make decisions using quantifiable social, economic and environmental guidelines.
Nov 13, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
To rid electric grid of carbon, shore up green energy support
Cornell and Northwestern University engineers, along with a federal economist, have created an energy model that helps to remove carbon-generated power from the U.S. electric grid—replacing it with a greener, financially ...
Oct 28, 2019
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Engineering
Accounting for variability in vascular models
Scientists at Duke University are working to accurately model the uncertainties in the mechanical behavior of human arterial walls. By supporting theoretical developments for tissue engineering, the research could eventually ...
Oct 14, 2019
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Engineering
Contextual engineering improves success of projects in non-industrial societies
Humanitarian engineering projects often focus on bringing western technologies to non-industrialized societies. But environmental and cultural factors in these locations may be very different from conditions in the West, ...
Oct 12, 2019
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Engineering
Mobile phone signals provide occupancy numbers for buildings
Buildings currently consume about 40 percent of all the electricity used in the United States, most of them located in urban areas that are growing rapidly. Because electricity generation is the largest source of greenhouse ...
Oct 11, 2019
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Engineering
Predicting the impact of climate change on bridge safety
Climate change will ultimately affect our bridges. But to what extent?
Oct 09, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
How bike sharing in Seattle rose from the ashes of Pronto's failure
In October 2014, Seattle launched Pronto, a docked bike-share program. But Pronto had problems shifting into a higher gear, and the city ended the program in 2017, making Seattle one of the few cities in the world to shut ...
Oct 07, 2019
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Engineering
Engineers produce water-saving crop irrigation sensor
A team of University of Connecticut researchers engineered a soil moisture sensor that is more cost effective than anything currently available and responds to the global need to regulate water consumption in agriculture.
Sep 26, 2019
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Automotive
Carnegie Mellon senses traffic using advanced vehicle-based sensor data
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering collaborated with Uber Advanced Technologies Group (Uber ATG) to better understand how advanced vehicle-based sensor data can ...
Sep 07, 2019
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Automotive
Study finds big benefits in embracing vehicle safety tech
Alerting drivers to potential threats through "driver-assist" warning systems has been shown to reduce the odds of a crash. Using cameras or radar, each tool detects potentially dangerous anomalies, such as drifting from ...
Sep 04, 2019
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