and elsewhere to finance the construction of bridges, roads, transit, and other public facilities. Current state of clean energy financing programs Connecticut The New york Green Bank will join the Connecticut Clean energy Finance and Investment Authority,
The California Alternative energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority, orcaeatfa, and the California Pollution control Financing Authority, or CPCFA.
Besides the Cadillac ELR technology, other nominees for the award included the Acura Sport Hybrid SH-AWD powertrain;
BMW i3 carbon fiber reinforced plastic passenger cell; Ford 1. 0-liter Ecoboost engine; Honda accord plug-in powertrain;
Hyundai hydrogen fuel cell; Mazda i-ELOOP brake energy regeneration system; Porsche plug-in hybrid powertrain; and Ram Truck 3. 0-liter Ecodiesel engine D
#New Sensor Easily Detects Greenhouse gases Scientists have created a highly sensitive portable sensor to test the air for the most damaging greenhouse gases.
and longer trains and providing station entrances on either bank of the Thames. The PV panels over the rail bridge have been in place for a while now
Carcharging has strategic partnerships across multiple business sectors including multifamily residential and commercial properties, parking garages, shopping malls, retail parking,
S. ZEV Policy Lab, a partnership between UC Davis, the world leading university on sustainable transportation,
Primary UC Davis partners are the Institute of Transportation Studies and the UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment and the Economy.
Yunshi Wang, director of the China Center for Energy and Transportation at ITS-Davis, signed the agreement in Tianjin on behalf of ITS-Davis, the UC Davis Policy Institute,
and the PH&EV Research center ITS-Davis is the leading university center in the world on sustainable transportation.
and other matching entities to lead the National Center for Sustainable transportation. ITS-Davis established the China Center for Energy and Transportation in partnership with leading Chinese universities.
C-CET specializes in China and transportation sector energy issues and is the only Chinese research center on transportation and energy in North america.
C-CET is a two-way learning and research center facilitating study and research in China for U s. graduate students and faculty,
as well as inviting Chinese researchers and students to visit and study at UC Davis. The UC Davis Policy Institute leverages world-class university expertise
Zerobus TARC all-electric fleet is now providing fare-free rides for passengers along Main Market and Fourth streets.
The zero emissions all-electric buses replace diesel-powered trolleys the highest polluting TARC vehicles. erobus changes the game for public transportation in downtown
Louisville Metro contributed $500000. he Federal Transit Administration congratulates TARC on the launch of its new Zerobus fleetsaid Therese Mcmillan Acting Administrator of the FTA which contributed $8. 7 million in federal
and other opportunities while improving air quality and offering 21st century transportation options to the region growing population for years to come.?
This investment in new technologies is not just about improving public transportation in Louisville; it is also a down payment on ensuring healthier cleaner air and a more energy independent futuresaid Congressman John Yarmuth.
The Zerobus recharges in just a few minutes along the route while passengers load and unload at a charging stop.
Each time a Zerobus pulls up to a charging stop it automatically connects to an overhead high-capacity charger.
which are operating in eight other states mostly on the east and west coasts. roterra is honored to partner with Louisville Metro TARC
and the Federal Transit Administration on this innovative projectsaid Ryan Popple president and CEO of Proterra Inc. s an American technology company and the U s. market leader in electric buses for public transit wee especially proud
We are pleased that Proterra could share in your city vision to promote a sustainable cost effective transit solution protecting the environment for generations to come. he five oldest trolley buses combined now emit a total of about 1135 pounds of carbon monoxide in a year compared to zero emissions from the all-electric buses.
Buses run on both routes from 10 a m. 6 p m. on Saturdays. The Main-Market route features red Zerobus stop signs.
Green bus stop signs are on the Fourth Street route s
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Also on the drawing board is oliagethat can be installed on rooftops and balconies and along roadsides to power variable-message signs.
sensing technologies will allow the introduction of new services for citizens that will benefit quality of life, such as traffic and pollution monitoring,
and even smart parking guidance systems that help drivers to quickly find parking spaces,""he predicts.
#Safe to fly A fresh way of analysing security information is being developed with the help of Heathrow Airport.
and feeds from existing airport systems bringing them all into one place. Any big airport could benefit from it.
It could deliver information to a single user, could have the opportunity to bring synergies across lots of systems,
and monitor these systems on an ongoing basis."The airport operator programmes the system to make connections between data sources and highlight potential threats in real time.
"The TASS test sensors at Heathrow monitor everything from cargo to car parks added Hazzani:""We have the location of the different vehicles,
even the location of passengers-anonymously-but we can see the flow of passengers inside the terminal.
We may also see the location of airplanes.""The system-conceived in an EU research project-is designed to complement existing airport security systems already in place e
This will provide safety officers with the exact location of every passenger and crew member during an evacuation.
which can carry thousands of passengers and crew. The researchers in the project have developed also a radar device able to detect the exact location of passengers who have fallen overboard.
The GOALDS project which ended in 2012 created new designs for large cruise vessels to increase their safety in the case of a collision or grounding.
assembly-line machines do their own'thinking'A major consumer of time and money in the manufacturing of aircraft, motor vehicles,
Different models of aircraft have different body shapes, different types of seats and cabins, and so on.
All of this affects the shape and size of the fuselage. This means that production lines have to switch from one variety of aeroplane to another using different machines and different setups for the machines.
This costs time and money. PRESS can help significantly reduce costs by having the machines themselves adapt to different aeroplane models
says Peschl. roducts used to be more standardised. Today, customers want more varieties and customised products.
The United states Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) and the European Aviation safety Agency (EASA) have shown also interest in the technology
explains project manager Mariola Rodríguez. ablebot will demonstrate the potential of cable robotic systems for the life-cycle maintenance and repair of aircraft,
including logistics, transport and warehousing. Project details Project acronym: Cablebot Participants: Spain (Coordinator), Germany, France FP7 Proj.
By 2020, it is expected that up to 20%of worldwide automobile production will include electrical powertrains the machinery that powers
MUPROD solutions could help to cut the 0. 5%of losses currently reported due to late detection of errors during electrical powertrain assembly. hat could lead to cost savings of EUR 2 million per year,
and even personal transportation vehicles such as electric wheelchairs. he system will be developed further to easier integrate with many more systems and programs,
#Materials and drives for High & Wide efficiency electric powertrains-Reducing dependency on rare earth materials Presently, drives for Fully Electric vehicles and Hybrid electric vehicles develop their highest efficiency of around 935%within a speed range of usually 1
impacting health, energy agriculture, production, transportation and tourism. In 2011, an EU-funded project began an in depth analysis of these challenges with an eye toward developing long-term solutions.
#Nanotechnology to fight hospital superbugs Each year, twice as many people die in Europe from hospital acquired infections than from road accidents.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) now warns that textiles act as a microbial harbour for superbugs.
A European research project has developed a transport system consisting of water-bags and tugboats to bring fresh water to the hardest-hit coastal and island regions around the Mediterranean.
A water quality sensor to assess water purity has been tested in a laboratory with the intention of being fitted to water-bags in the future to ensure safe and clean delivery after transit.
or of procuring the urnkeywater-transport service. The system does not require permanent onshore or near-shore infrastructures and the running costs are kept low thanks to the use of tugboats.
while CO2 EMISSIONS will be lower thanks to efficient transport options. e have received considerable interest from stakeholders in the Mediterranean and Persian gulf area,
Further EU support would enable Refresh to scale up the concept for commercial applications over medium-to long-distance routes i
reducing resource waste The production of advanced high-tech components for aircraft and other aerospace applications is an expensive
and more effective route to the creation of vaccines to combat some of the most devastating diseases affecting farm livestock.
The same accelerated route can be used to uncover a vast new range of urgently-needed vaccines for humans as well.
#FLY-BAG CHALLENGE#Innovative bombproof luggage container to improve aviation safety Engineers are continually working on new ways to improve aviation safety,
the Fly-Bag consortium has developed a bomb-proof luggage container that can withstand an explosion on a commercial airliner.
or a cargo-hold from damaging the structure or tearing a hole in the fuselage and bringing down the plane.
which helped bring together an international team of manufacturing, material and aviation engineers. The diversity of industries and partners highlights that the Fly-Bag project is an example of cross-fertilisation among large research centres,
The primary challenge was to make these state-of-the-art materials contain the rapid gas expansion that occurs in an explosion strong enough to rip open the aluminium fuselage of a plane.
which a commercial airliner was brought down over Scotland by a bomb hidden in the baggage. D'Appolonia began developing the project in 2008,
As well as speaking to various airlines, Zangani and his team are currently finalising the certification process that will allow the deployment of the Fly-Bag in the aviation sector.
One of the major potential uses is on cargo planes not to confine terrorist bombs, but to transport dangerous materials."
According to Zangani, the first Fly-Bags are expected to be installed in commercial passenger planes in 2013.
pilot and demonstration projects, bringing together industrial partners, SMES, research centres and universities across the EU helping to develop knowledge and foster innovation.
and fixed braces (or train tracks). They may be made of metal, white porcelain or clear plastic.
and recover valuable cargo a European union (EU) funded research project has developed a unique emergency-response system with vast potential.
parachute-shaped"sea anchor"to slow down a drifting ship and put it in a better position for rescue and recovery operations.
and repair crews to board a ship in such an unstable condition. In a worst-case scenario, a drifting ship can tip over,
First, a helicopter drops a lasso that is fastened to the ship's bow. Next, a 200-metre chain is dropped into the water.
At the end of the chain is a 30-metre-wide sea anchor that opens under water like a parachute both slowing down the drifting ship and turning it 90 degrees.
rescue the crew and make repairs. Finally, a tugboat arrives, picks up a buoy that is connected to the sea anchor,
Hands-free driving hits the highway Known as"road trains,"a truck driven by a specially trained driver leads a procession of cars
directly addresses the three cornerstone issues of transportation: environment, safety and congestion. With the vehicles drafting a few metres behind each other, SARTRE short for"Safe Road trains for the Environment"can cut fuel consumption by up to 20%.
%Because the sensor-based system reacts faster than people who are the cause of 87%of traffic accidents SARTRE provides safety benefits.
And SARTRE can improve how roads are utilised, since vehicles can travel very close together or drive long distances at night
when roads are used less. For drivers, SARTRE can reduce their stress and increase their comfort.
It combines the advantages of public transportation, with someone else doing the driving, and the freedom of a privately owned car that can leave the road train at any time.
creating meaningful synergies that have led already to spin-off technologies in the rapidly growing field of intelligent transport.
Such a wide-ranging project that involves long-distance travel would fit elegantly into Europe's transportation system.
By end of 2012, the SARTRE team hopes to add a fourth vehicle to the train,
and whether dedicated routes would be established, like traditional public transportation. An EU-wide legal framework will have to be developed to allow road trains to operate throughout Europe.
a UK-based transportation technology company that is leading the project.""And there is no need to change the road infrastructure,
which would allow SARTRE vehicles to use existing highways.""Project details Participants: United kingdom (Coordinator), Sweden, Spain, Germany FP7 Proj.
mass production of high-manganese steel grades is possible using either the blast furnace-basic oxygen converter route or the electric arc furnace route.
on the back of PROMS and EAF-PROMS, the projectsindustrial partner, Salzgitter AG steel group, decided to build the world first line for production of high-manganese steel grades based on the electric arc furnace route.
Already now eight new railway bridges using Preco-Beam have been built in Germany, Austria and Poland."
"For instance, when the 140-year-old railway overpass'Simmerbach',located in Germany, was rebuilt using Preco-Beam technology,
transport only had to be interrupted for a weekend. Composite structures-in which different building materials are combined-gained prominence in Europe because of their high resource efficiency and low maintenance requirement.
and utility and transport companies, and of course insurance companies. ur evaluation of potential markets, driven by our SME partners,
#ENEA-MATS#Egypt taps into solar#Fotolia 2012a#12.5 million EU-funded project in thecountry aims at taking the first tentativesteps to fulfilling this promise by exploitingthe abundance of solar energy
and parts that go into our aircraft, cars, machine parts, says project coordinator Jan Willem Gunnink of UK-based Delcam.
Flexpakrenew has demonstrated at pilot scale that a set of technologies can be combined to produce performing paper-based packaging materials with a demonstrated environmental gain.
""I'm a bus driver. And now I have serious difficulties moving the steering wheel while driving.
Tests are under way with several emergency service crews in Europe. The possibilities include wireless communication between fire fighters
The new processing route uses European biomass as feedstock which will help to secure and increase the internal EU energy supply.
BIOCOUP will also help to make a significant contribution to the reduction of CO2 EMISSIONS in the transportation sector through the efficient utilisation of biomass material.
This enables a seamless integration of biorefinery coprocessing products to the end consumer for products such as transport fuels and chemicals.
This will encourage the acceptance of biomass and further the technological development of biomass production routes.
EU project makes first'solar'kerosene An EU-funded research project called SOLAR-JET has produced the world's first'solar'jet fuel from water and carbon dioxide (CO2), a promising technology for a better
and can be used by existing vehicles and aircraft without modifications of their engines or of fuel infrastructure.
The SOLAR-JET project brings together research organisations from academia and industry (ETH Zürich, Bauhaus Luftfahrt, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt (DLR),
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and product transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions intensity 20 percent by 2020, compared to 2010. It said was the first IT company to set a supply chain emissions goal.
This will range from promoting deep energy retrofits or piloting new technologies on City-owned properties to investing in training opportunities for its workforce.
and the internet of things and combine test beds projects and activities from different sectors including smart manufacturing healthcare smart energy intelligent transportation and disaster response.
When there is a local air quality alert residents can choose to take public transit bicycle or carpool to get to work
Such measurement data will produce meaningful insights that will lead to improvements in air quality noise transportation efficiency environmental sustainability health and energy efficiency.
Homeowners could use a small filter attached to their tap. Further research is needed to optimize the process
It s a surprisingly long road from Food and Drug Administration approval of a new drug or technique to doctors actually using the new drug in their practices notes Weiss whose research focuses on how to get doctors to adopt best practices.
Conventional fluorescent label-based virus detection methods require expensive lab equipment significant sample preparation transport and processing times and extensive training to use.
Knowing more about filoviruses in general could provide insight into which host species might serve as##reservoirs##that harbor undiscovered pathogens related to Ebola
which helped screen patients for tertiary care and transport them to hospitals in urban centers.####The results of this study are important to India as it makes choices on how to make progress towards universal health coverage##says Onno Ruhl World bank Group Country Director for India.##
##Before a new building is constructed the roads have to be in place so that the materials and equipment can be brought in##says Cao.##
Lead researcher Kaye Morgan from Monash University says the imaging method allows doctors to look at soft tissue structures for example the brain airways
However the new imaging method allows us for the first time to non-invasively see how the treatment is working live on the airway surface.
& Microbe Amarasinghe and Daisy Leung assistant professor of pathology and immunology show that VP24 tightly binds to a nuclear transporter a protein that takes molecules into
and out of the cell nucleus. Among the molecules these transporters take into the nucleus is STAT1 an important component of the interferon signaling pathway.##
##But when VP24 is attached to some of these transporters STAT1 can t get into the nucleus.##The study shows that VP24 s action specifically prevents STAT1 transport.
and avoid breeding dogs that harbor this mutation, thus gradually eliminating the disease from the Newfoundland breed,
a special imaging device known as a focal plane array (FPA) gives highly detailed information on a sample area in minutes.
making it easier to image the entire brain without bleaching the probes. e can now scan an entire plane at one time instead of a point,
The technology could make screening bags and passengers at airports less intrusive. It also has the potential to inspect food and even scan for tumors.
The UK Health and Safety Executive, the UK Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions, the UK Department of health,
Longo likens the effect to lightening a plane of excess cargo. During each cycle of fasting, this depletion of white blood cells induces changes that trigger stem cell-based regeneration of new immune system cells.
a new immune system. 72-HOUR FAST Prolonged fasting also protected against toxicity in a pilot clinical trial in
you can hear the vibration of the wheels long before the train itself because sound waves travel faster
it changed its characteristics in a way that enabled it to propagateust like the sound waves through the train track.
A signaling pathway is a route through which proteins ferry chemical messages from the cell borders to deep inside it.
compared to other respiratory viruses, for causing obstruction and inflammation in the narrowest airways of the infant lung,
associate professor of microbiology and immunology. ut what wee now shown is that RSV has increased an ability to cause airway obstruction because, during an RSV infection,
or NS2, in epithelial cells, causing the cells to shed from the airway lining and into the airway lumen.
This leads to obstruction of airflow in the small airways and overwhelming inflammation. Published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the study shows it this NS2 protein
and parainfluenza virus (PIV3) nother common virus in children that causes much less severe airway diseaseo infect
which compose the lining of the lung airway. ut comparing these consequences of infection did not provide hints as to why RSV and PIV3 produced such differences in disease severity.
and puffed out of the airway epithelium, causing the infected cells to accumulate in the lumen of the airway. e hypothesized that
since RSV and PIV3 are very similar viruses these different effects must be due to differences in the types of genes that RSV expresses,
the researchers found that a specific RSV genehe NS2 geneas responsible for the balling up of RSV-infected airway cells.
When Liesman infected human airway cells in the lab with this re-engineered virus, she saw infected cells ball up
and puff out of the airway epithelium. he cells infected by PIV3 expressing the NS2 gene of RSV looked exactly like RSV-infected cells,
They found that infection of the narrowest airways of the lung by PIV3 alone caused moderate levels of inflammation,
the epithelial cells lining the narrow airways were shed rapidly into the airway lumen. The shedding occurred at such a great rate that the shed cells obstructed the airway lumen,
resulting and caused excessive inflammation. The findings in animal models were almost identical to what has been found in human infants who had died because of RSV infection.
convinced that the RSV NS2 gene is a major driver for the well-recognized increased ability of RSV to cause lung disease, especially in the extremely narrow small airways of human infants.
if the epithelial cells in the tiniest airways are expressing the RSV NS2 protein. He is now initiating studies to look for the same biomarkers in human infants infected with RSV f we can find biomarkers informing us that the most vulnerable parts of the lung have already been infected by RSV,
it may be possible to suppress the ability of NS2 to shed the airway epithelial cells. Thwarting this shedding effect wouldn stop infection or stifle the typical symptoms of RSV infection
but it might limit the virus ability to spread into the tiniest airways, which are the most likely to be obstructed by cells shed during infection.
Suppressing the effects of the RSV NS2 protein may also allow our immune system more time to deal with the RSV infection before the small airways become clogged with cells shedding from the lining of the airway,
The researchers device works by mimicking the way magnetic materials break the symmetry in wave transmission between two points in space a critical function that allows magnetic circulators to selectively route radio waves.
and radar systems for aircraft ships and satellites can be extremely heavy and large so minimizing the size of these systems could provide significant savings.
But seen from the side three distinct layers are revealed with sulfur atoms in their own planes above and below the molybdenum.
But our material is highly porous. hat we see in the images are short 5-to 6-nanometer planes
and 83 percent after 20000 cycles. e see anodization as a route to materials for multiple platforms in the next generation of alternative energy devicestour says. hese could be fuel cells supercapacitors and batteries.
Homeowners could use a small filter attached to their tap. Further research is needed to optimize the process
and here we have provided a new route to increase light intensity by modulating loss in the systemsays Lan Yang an associate professor in electrical
or shoot down enemy planes in a game. Spreading out your fingers magnifies a section of a map or scrolls the page of a book forwards.
#o-seeums harbor virus that makes cows sick A virus that causes a serious disease in cows
Microtubules are string-like protein polymers that together with kinesin transport cargo around the cells.
and two end stations where the cargo is delivered. The researchers can add the objects to the system through the lines that supply the assembly segments.
The creation of a functional unit from individual components remains a big challenge. e have put a lot of thought into how to design the mechanical properties of bonds to bind the cargo to the shuttles
Lead researcher Kaye Morgan from Monash University says the imaging method allows doctors to look at soft tissue structures for example the brain airways
However the new imaging method allows us for the first time to non-invasively see how the treatment is working live on the airway surface.
and homeland security applications says Yakovlev. deally you#d like to target a suspicious substance from an airplane possibly
if a newly seen segment is similar to previously observed events such as routine traffic on a highway.
The other thing we see at airports is the use of swabs to check for explosive residue
a special imaging device known as a focal plane array (FPA) gives highly detailed information on a sample area in minutes.
It transits or passes in front of its parent star every 38 hours which gives scientists an opportunity to study its atmosphere as starlight filters through it.
Volman suggests the material would make a compelling competitor to recently touted nanotube-based aerogels for deicing airplanes in the winter. e have the technology;
To improve amplification the researchers moved all the contacts to the same plane at the top surface of the vertical transistor.
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