The Future of Mobility: From Gridlock to Green Solutions

Event Details

• Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2025
• Time: 10:00 AM EST
• Location: Online via Zoom

The Future of Mobility: From Gridlock to Green Solutions

Research in the areas of mobility and sustainability in urban centers, especially those aimed at tangible measures such as optimization, brings real benefits to society, improving people's lives, protecting the environment, and boosting the sustainable development of cities. We aim to create a more efficient, inclusive, and environmentally responsible urban environment. This seminar will address three interconnected topics, focusing on developing practical and innovative solutions to improve urban mobility, promote sustainability, and enhance the efficiency of urban centers.

• Transportation of People: Highlighting the importance of accessible and inclusive transportation. Optimization approaches for on-demand transportation systems will be presented, focusing on advanced technologies. The integration of different modes of transport and the adaptability of routes will be discussed.
• Freight Transport and Its Impact on Congestion and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Addressing the challenges of transporting goods in urban centers and the environmental impacts of greenhouse gas emissions.
• Optimization of Traffic Light Phases: Exploring data analysis and simulation techniques applied to optimizing traffic light phases, considering traffic patterns and real-time information. By reducing traffic jams, these efforts aim to improve traffic flow while significantly lowering fuel consumption and emissions.

Results of actual deployments will be presented to showcase the efforts and potential gains of these projects.

Speaker Bio

Leandro C. Coelho is the Canada Research Chair in Integrated Logistics and a full professor at Université Laval. He specializes in industrial emissions reduction projects, particularly in urban mobility, and his projects have saved several thousand tons of greenhouse gas emissions. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles.

Professor Coelho is a member of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada and co-founder of the MobilOpt group on Mobility Optimization, which specializes in optimizing sustainable mobility and collaborates with various cities, ministries, and public transport providers.