Decarbonizing Transportation Seminar - Electric Vehicles: Challenges, Strategies and Emission Mitigations
Abstract
The transportation sector accounts for around 25% of Canada's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Electric Vehicles (EV) and cleaner fuels are key to decarbonizing our communities and society. However, the uneven and limited infrastructure is one major roadblock. Less than 6% of electric chargers are in the Prairie region which makes EVs problematic for long trips. Furthermore, although Canada sets the mandatory target for passenger vehicles to be zero-emission by 2035, charging queuing and cold weather are major concerns for urban EV trips. Such growing challenges are critical reasons that EVs still make up fewer than 5% of Canadian passenger vehicles. This seminar will address the growing challenges, strategies and future vision of electric vehicle development towards sustainable, inclusive and zero-emission transportation and society.
Bio
Yili (Kelly) Tang, Ph.D, P.Eng. is an Assistant Professor at the University of Regina, leading the Mobility Technology Research Group focusing on travel mobility and human behavior, transportation modeling and optimization, artificial intelligence and automation. She actively engaged in diverse activities in both academia and industry in Canada, United States, Hong Kong, Denmark, and Japan. Kelly leads and co-leads over $2.5 million national and international research grants and has won over six awards in research and entrepreneurship. She is the vice chair of transportation division in Canadian Society for Civil Engineering and vice president of Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers SK section. She also holds committee membership of US Transportation Research Board and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Kelly obtained her PhD from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology with a Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme and worked as a postdoctoral scholar at University of California, Berkeley. In parallel, Kelly had four years of experience working as an algorithm engineer and researcher in industry on automation, robotics, and multi-agent systems. Her research studies have been published in top-tier journals, conferences and seminars in transportation engineering and science, economics, and energy domains.
Context
The migration of our society to a low carbon environment is key to mitigating climate change and to achieving the collective benefits for our communities, our environment, our economy and quality of life. It requires the deployment of technical solutions, establishment of supportive policies, development of financing programs, and developing partnerships, working across sectors of our society and economy. Now, more than ever, it requires words being put into action. To support these efforts, the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science is organizing the Seminar and Symposia series “Decarbonising Southern Saskatchewan”. This seminar provides an overview of key issues that will be examined more deeply in the follow-on Symposium.
The Decarbonizing Transportation Symposium will be on May 25 at 1:15-4pm in the Education Auditorium (ED 106).
Questions: raman.paranjape@uregina.ca