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Advanced Transportation Workshop
October 10-11, 2005
Stanford University

The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) sponsored an advanced transportation workshop, which featured leading energy researchers from around the world discussing increased transportation efficiency, fuels that emit zero net carbon dioxide, and novel concepts for moving goods and people. The workshop concentrated on areas where basic research has the greatest potential to produce a breakthrough in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Transportation accounts for one-fifth of global carbon dioxide emissions, mostly from the combustion of petroleum, according to the International Energy Association. This fraction is expected to approach one-third over the next century as more of the Earth's population uses energy for mobility. The challenge of significantly reducing carbon dioxide emissions from transportation is made more difficult by the mobile, distributed nature of millions of vehicles burning fuel.

Participants during the first day of the GCEP Advanced Transportation Workshop investigated how efficiency in transportation could result from lightweight materials, friction reduction or increased vehicle automation. The topic of the second day was the utilization of carbon-free and carbon-neutral energy for transportation in the form of electricity, biofuels, or synthesized hydrocarbons.

Keynote speakers included Dr. Amory B. Lovins, director of the Rocky Mountain Institute; Dr. Andreas Schäfer, a global transportation energy modeler at the University of Cambridge; and Dr. Michael Wang, a vehicle and fuel systems analyst at Argonne National Laboratory. Selected Presentations

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Development of Recombinant Yeast for Cellulosic Ethanol Production (3:30pm)
Nancy Ho, Purdue University
A Research Agenda for Making Biomass a Sustainable Source of Transportation Fuels (3:00pm)
John Sheehan, NREL
Liquid Fuels from Biomass
Chair: Chris Chidsey, Chemistry, Stanford University
Electrochemical Activation of Liquid Alcoholic Fuels (2:00pm)
Gongquan Sun, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China
CO₂ Reduction Catalysis for the Production of Fuels and Chemicals (1:30pm)
Balasubramanian Viswanathan, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Hydrocarbon Synthesis and Activation
Chair: Chris Chidsey, Chemistry, Stanford University
Possibilities in Inductive Energy Transfer (11:30am)
Grant Covic, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Energy Storage in Advanced Vehicle Systems (11:00am)
Andrew Burke, University of California, Davis
Opening New Paths for Next Generation Li-Based Batteries (10:00am)
Jean-Marie Tarascon, Picardie University Jules Verne, France
Advanced Batteries for Automotive Applications (9:30am)
Donald Sadoway, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Electric Energy Utilization
Chair: Dmitry Yandulov, Chemistry, Stanford University
Tuesday, October 11th
Carbon-Free and Carbon Neutral Energy Carriers
Keynote Address: Technology Integration for Radical and Profitable Transportation Efficiency (8:15am)
Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
Reducing Aerodynamic Drag and Fuel Consumption (4:00pm)
Fred Browand, University of Southern California
Toward More Efficient Transport: The InductrackMaglev System (3:30pm)
Richard Post, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Friction Reduction
Chair: Chris Gerdes, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Automated Vehicle Control Architecture (2:30pm)
Masayoshi Tomizuka, University of California, Berkeley
New Technologies for Sustainable Urban Transport in Europe (2:00pm)
Michel Parent, The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA)
Research Challenges for Automated Vehicles (1:30pm)
Steve Shladover, University of California, Berkeley
Transit Schedule Leveling
Chair: Chris Gerdes, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Manufacturing Novel Structured Plastic Materials for Strength and Functionality (11:15am)
Dave Zumbrunnen, Clemson University
Technical Barriers to Large Scale Lightweight Vehicle Materials Production (11:00am)
Structural Composites for High Volume Automotive Applications (10:15am)
Martyn Wakeman, Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland
Mass Reduction
Chair: Reinhold Dauskardt, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Keynote Address: Well-to-Wheels Results of Advanced Vehicle Systems with New Transportation Fuels (9:30am)
Michael Wang, Argonne National Laboratory
Keynote Address: Transportation, Energy, and Technology in the 21st Century (8:45am)
Andreas Schäfer, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Monday, October 10th
Propulsive Efficiency in Transportation
Introduction to GCEP and Scope of Workshop (morning)
Lynn Orr, Global Climate and Energy Project