Transportation

Online units conversion site.

Overheads, tables, instructor notes:

• Figures (and a little more) from text (Fundamentals of Environmental Physics, Forinash).

• Energy used for transportation by type: one, two.
• Second law efficiencies: different processes, a car.
• Hypermiling example.
• Hybrid types.
• Car emissions.
• Well to Wheels spreadsheet (GREET) from Argonne National Lab (download and calculate combinations of fuel source and enegine for transportation), sample graph.
• Gas mileage versus horsepower data; CAFE data (NHTSA), comparison graph.
• Electric Power Institute on plug-in hybrids.
• EPA on emissions from cars.
• Demonstration fuel cell cars.
• The Tesla all electric car.
• Fuel efficiency of transportation modes: Wikipedia,
• Google RechargeIT (equivalent MPG for hybrid plugins).
• Transportation data:
  • Federal Highway Adminsitration (National Household Travel Servey).
  • Bureau of Transportation Statistics, vehicle miles traveled, walking and bicycle.
  • National Transportation Safety Board on traffic fatalities, 2005.
  • US Coast Guard Boating Saftey Division.
  • National Transportation Safety Board on air travel.
• Safety:
  • Driving risk reports from AAA.
  • Are bigger cars really safer? Berkely lab report, fuel economy vs safety google site.
  • Car risks: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
  • Travel risk (may not be reliable).
  • Travel risk by John Brignel (may not be reliable).

Articles:

• 'Vehicle of Change' by L. D. Burns, J. B. McCormick and C. E. Borroni-Bird Scientific American vol. 287 No. 4 (2002) p64.
• 'Traffic Crashes' by Leonard Evans, Amercian Scientist, vol. 90 No. 3 (2002) p 244.