Transportation and Energy

3 credits · Nicholas School of Environment

Examination of transportation-related energy use and its impact on the environment. Learn how technology, infrastructure, and policy, as well as personal and cultural preferences, interact to meet demands for personal mobility and freight movement. Cutting across these themes will be consideration of strategies to reduce transportation energy use and its environmental impacts, with an introduction to information resources and tools for evaluating both. Provides opportunities to hone problem solving and analytical skills, and challenges students to think critically and creatively about the trade-offs among complex transportation options.