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iCET holds its first China Urban Transportation Emissions Calculator workshop in Guangzhou
iCET was invited to hold its first China Urban Transportation Emissions Calculator (CUTEC PV v1.0) workshop as part of the UK-South China Low-Carbon Development Week. Speakers included UK Climate Change and Energy Consul, iCET's president, director and officer, E4Tech's consulting manager, Shenzhen Transportation design and Research Institute, and Sun Yet-Sen University Transportation Air Quality Center.
Read More…iCET presents its EV work and make concluding remarks at the Shenzhen E-mobility Workshop
iCET was invited to share its EV mobility work areas and study results in the Shenzhen E-mobility Workshop - Information and Scenarios on March 13 in Shenzhen University Town. The workshop was designed to discuss the outcomes of a two-year long study titled Low Carbon Innovation in China - Prospects, Politics & Practice, which was jointly conducted by Lancaster University and Tsinghua Shenzhen Graduate School. Maya Ben Dror, the Director of iCET’s Clean Transportation Transformation Program, shared the recent BestEV project progress and EV choice preferences approach and also made concluding remarks at the workshop closing session.
Read More…iCET holds a BestEV qualitative questionnaire testing through an EV test drive and focused-group
On the morning of March 8, iCET held a consumer EV test-drive trial and focused group in a BAIC Beijing sales store (4S) for assessing the qualitative questionnaire design part of the newly developed BestEV methodology. The BestEV is an EV performance ranking system that relies on both quantitative criteria and qualitative criteria obtained through reported data and voluntary public participation respectively. The initial qualitative criteria were developed through meta analysis followed by a Delphi Method and consensus development conferencing in which over 30 EV experts from the public, private and academic sector participated.
iCET presents at the 2nd Future Transportat Lab Alliance Conference
As a member of China’s Future Transport Lab Forum, iCET was invited to share its experiences in transport data utilization in private vehicle policies evaluation and clean vehicles studies. The 2015 formed coalition is aimed at providing a sharing platform for maximizing the potential of data utilization and concepts sharing for advancing the development of smart transportation cities in China. Recognizing only a joint effort would lead to the formation of an inclusive sustainable transport ecosystem, the Future Transport Lab coalition has urged over 30 institutions to get involved, with iCET currently being the only NGO sector member of the coalition.
Read More…iCET reviews Beijing Science and Technology Commission 2016 funded projects
Jan 10th, iCET Clean Transportation Manager and biofuel expert Ms Liping Kang was invited by Beijing Science and Technology Commission to review their 2016 planning funded project, Research and Demonstration of Key Technology of Bioethanol Production from Biomass, which would be implemented by ZTE Energy etc. The main outputs will be applied in Inner Mongolia, biofuels environmental benefits would be also studied in Jing-Jin-Ji regions.
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