Traffic and Sustainable Development
Syllabus
Environmental pollution, sources of environmental pollution, the impact of pollutants on the environment.
Air pollution. Air pollution by traffic, impact on global climate changes, air pollution with particulate matter, nitrogen oxides and ozone, evaluations and models of air pollution, monitoring and standards. Air pollution in Slovenia with special reference to transportation. Air traffic and pollution, the impact on global climate changes.
Water pollution, wastewaters, sewage, oil and derivatives, solid wastes, plastics and microplastics, monitoring and standards, models of pollutant distribution and spreading.
Collateral harmful impact of traffic on the natural environment and human health: pollutant emissions, noise emissions, emissions of particles, global climate changes and carbon footprint, traffic and land use. Guidelines for sustainable transport, politics for environmental sustainability in transportation, clean fuels and alternative engines, e-mobility.
Goals and competencies
In this course, students are informed about basic composition and processes occuring in the natural environment, especially in atmosphere and waters, as well as the consequences of pollution due to transportation activities. Student understands principles and guidelines for sustainable development, with an emphasis on traffic. In the frame of the course, the research methods in the field are exposed. Student will be able to use these methods in the field of environmental protection and solve problems about traffic sustainable development.
Basic literature
- R.M. Hamilton, R. M. Harrison (Eds.), 1991. Highway pollution, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 510 str. (izbrana poglavja), 510 str. ISBN: 0‐444‐88188‐3
- Y. Hayashi, K.J. Button, P. Nijkamp (Eds.), 1999. The environment and transport. E. Elgar Reference Collection, Cheltenham, Northampton, 500 pp. (izbrana poglavja) , 500 str. ISBN: 1‐85898‐819‐5
- P.L. Schiller, E. Bruun, J.R. Kenworthy, 2010. An introduction to sustainable transportation-policy, planning and implementation, Earthscan publications, New York, 400 str. ISBN-13: 978-1-844-07664-2
- F. Oldfield, 2005. Environmental change. Key issues and alternative approaches, Cambridge University Press, New York, 363 str., ISBN-13 978-0-521-82936-4.