The automotive industry is at the front line of sustainability issues through the environmental impacts of car production and use, and the social, and economic importance of the automotive industry. BRASS research has been at the forefront of exploring new approaches to car technology and production which will be both more environmentally benign and more economically sustainable. It has also sought to explore issues of infrastructure, economics and consumer behaviour in a transition towards more sustainable forms of personal mobility.
Links to BRASS projects:
- Automotive Sector and Micro-Factory Retailing
- Alternative Fuels
- Alternative Business Models in Transport and Infrastructure
- CO2 from Transport and contribution to Climate Change
- End of Life Vehicles and Recycling
- Environmental Rating Systems
- Environmental Regulation
- Hydrogen Economy
- Sustainable Consumption of Automobility
- Sustainable Transport Behaviours
Links to BRASS Researchers
Highlighted Outputs
- The Automotive Industry ....... The Future Guide
- Greenpeace SUV Report
- Car CO2 Reduction Feasibility Assessment; Is 130g/km Possible?
- Changing the Way We Move
- Environmental Rating Systems (Clifford Thames)
- An Ecosystem Approach to the transition to New Business Models – an automotive industry case study
- Car Futures; Rethinking the Automotive Industry Beyond the American Model
Books
| Domestic Solar Energy: A Guide for the Home Owner by Gavin Harper (Hardcover - 24 Apr 2009) Crowood Press ISBN - 978 1 84797 060 2 |
| Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels: A Do-It-Yourself Manual
by Jon Starbuck and Gavin D J Harper (Paperback - 1 Jan 2009) ISBN - 978-0-07-160043-9 |
| The Business of Sustainable Mobility: From Vision to Reality
by Paul Nieuwenhuis, Philip Vergragt and Peter Wells (Hardcover - 15 Jul 2006)Greenleaf Publishing; illustrated edition edition ISBN-10: 1874719802 ISBN-13: 978-1874719809 |
| The Automotive Industry and the Environment by Paul Nieuwenhuis, Peter Wells and P. Niewenhuis (Hardcover - 30 Jul 2003) Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Ltd (30 July 2003) ISBN-10: 1855737132 |
