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Linking Energy, Transportation, Architecture and Planning in a Symbiotic Relationship.
- Focus Area: Energy
- Status: Archived
- Subcommittee: Air Quality
- Cost: $250k-$499k
- Timeframe: 1-2 years
Research Idea Scope
To look at how alternative energy sources such as solar or fuel cell can link with transportation movement systems in providing symbiotic alternative power for our building and movement needs. Choosing new movement technologies such as electric vehicles and personal rapid transit and examining how using alternative energy sources on their support buildings like parking garages can provide their power sources. This can positively impact our environmental needs. This connection will be documented in its potential to change the power source paradigm. How these new movement technologies can have a greater impact on how we create the urban plan will also be explored and several new ways to organize our buildings in space as well as design our buildings relative to these new vehicles will be presented.
Urgency and Payoff
The benefits of a transportation system, that would not affect our mobility choices that, due to the size of vehicles could dramatically change energy and environmental concerns cannot be understated. The greater impact then being on the organization of the urban plan and the design of buildings.
Shannon Sanders McDonald, Telephone: 404-378-7660
05/13/2008