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Transport and Sustainability
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This free course explores the issues around sustainable transport and how the role of technology and society can interact to lower the overall impact of transport.
This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course T213 Energy and Sustainability.
This content forms part of the Dangoor Education collection, the educational arm of The Exilarch's Foundation.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- outline the energy and environmental impacts of transport activities and their importance, and understand that behavioural changes have an important role in achieving transport sustainability
- carry out simple calculations on fuel consumption, CO2 emissions and running costs and understand the possible limitations to their deployment
- describe the key differences between petrol and diesel engines
- describe the low-carbon fuels and vehicle technologies available to reduce emissions.
First Published: 07/04/2025
Updated: 07/04/2025
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