TOPIC
Towards a car-lite city: From sustainable transport modes to integrated urban-transport planning
The shift towards a car-lite city is essential for reducing congestion, improving air quality, and enhancing urban livability. This lecture presents some of the recent research works performed at the National University of Singapore in exploring strategies for promoting sustainable transport modes, such as electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, public transit, cycling, and walking, and how they can be effectively integrated into urban-transport planning. Electrification research on optimal charger location design problem and case studies on conversion of fleet to a fully electric vehicle fleet shall be discussed in the lecture. Design for cycling and active mobility from both theoretical and actual planning case studies to enable a car-lite built environment shall also be presented. Integrated urban-transport planning models using both big data approaches and actual town planning case studies are also discussed to illustrate the gaps and opportunities for transport and urban planners. Last, the lecture shall highlight some of the future research directions that can be considered for societal impact.
TIME
Oct 21, 2024, 14:30
LOCATION
Room 322, School of Transportation
ABOUT THE LECTURER
Dr Ong Ghim Ping Raymond is currently an Associate Professor and Deputy Head (Research and Enterprise) at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore. He is also the Director (Operations) at the Coastal Protection and Flood Resilience Institute Singapore. He received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering from the National University of Singapore
Dr Ong’s research interest is in sustainable pavement materials and engineering, and multimodal transport infrastructures and operations. He has published more than 90 journal articles. He is currently the Executive Vice President of the International Society of Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Transport Infrastructures (iSMARTi) and the Chair of the ASCE Economics and Finance Committee. He is also the Council Member of the Singapore Road Safety Council and a member of the Land Transport Authority of Singapore’s Panel of Expert Advisors. He has won numerous awards, including the ASCE Alfred Noble Prize, the International Association of Maritime Economist (IAME) Hanjin Prize, and the iSMARTi Achievement Award.