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SMART Presentation Summary

In this talk the main solutions available to reduce fuel consumption and pollutant emissions from the road transportation sector are discussed. These cover both alternative fuels, new propulsion systems (such as hybrids, plug ins or fuel cells), mobility management and change of behaviour. Available technologies and promising future solutions are compared from a full life cycle perspective. Examples of results obtained at the research group on Transport, Energy and Environment for IST – Technical University of Lisbon using numerical simulators and a PEMS (Portable Emission Measurement System) are also discussed.

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Biography

Tiago Lopes Farias has been an Assistant Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, since 1997 having obtained his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering. His research activities cover vehicle dynamics and environmental performance modeling, experimental monitoring of the environmental performance of vehicles, environmental accessibility indicators, and alternative and sustainable energy within the transport industry.

Over the last decade he has participated in several joint research activities at the University of Michigan (where he undertook part of his Ph.D. under a co-supervision), Yale University (Mechanical Engineering Department) and most recently at the Institute for Transportation Research and Education at the North Carolina State University, the Urban Planning Department at the University of Michigan, and the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT.

Professor Farias also teaches “ Energy in Transport” -- a Mechanical Engineering Course at IST; and “Transportation Technologies” as part of the Masters in Transport program of the Civil Engineering Department at IST. As a researcher, Professor Farias has published more than 100 papers in Scientific Journals, International Books and International Conference Proceedings. He is currently leading a Research Team on Transport, Energy and Environment that comprises environmental and mechanical engineers and several technicians. Within the Research Team, he has been responsible for organizing and lecturing at several courses and workshops on alternative energy for transport, and new technologies for vehicle propulsion systems at IST and several other universities and technical institutes in Portugal. He is currently the supervisor of 5 PhD students, 5 masters students and host 2 Pos Doc researchers.

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