The Fourth Annual Trottier Symposium on Sustainable Engineering, Energy and Design will be held on April 11 – 12, 2017. This year theme is Transportation: What’s Fuelling the Transition.

Now that the nations of the world have agreed to act on climate change, and that most of them have set GHG reduction goals, it is time to take serious actions at reducing our dependency on fossil fuels. Since a large fraction of them are consumed for transporting goods and people, reaching these goals will require major transformations of this sector of activity.

So, the Annual Trottier Symposium series will contribute to this mandatory energy transition by dedicating its fourth symposium to the transport sector and the challenges it faces, by exploring a number of possible futures, knowing that many upcoming technologies make a transition to a low-carbon society more likely each day.

Technology alone will not be enough, however. But introduction of new, disruptive technologies is the occasion to re-evaluate our portfolio of transit tools. And if by the same occasion we revisit the goals of transportation, urban design, and the public and private vision, not only can we obtain environmental benefits, but also economic and social ones.

 

The entry is free. Registration is required.

For further information : www.trottiersymposium.org