This fully updated guide offers complete coverage of batteries and battery usage―from classic designs to emerging technologies.

Building Bye-Laws are legal tools used to regulate coverage, height, building bulk, and architectural design and construction aspects of buildings so as to achieve orderly development of an area. They are mandatory in nature and serve to protect buildings against fire, earthquake, noise, structural failures and other hazards.

Renewable energy (RE) is growing worldwide, with a six-fold increase in non-hydro renewables over the last decade from 85 to 657 gigawatts (GW). This report reviews the key trends that explain growth in RE, and highlights how they are challenging decision making in countries such as Brazil, China, India, and Kyrgyzstan.

This report investigates one particular scenario, ‘the large-scale deployment of shared vehicle fleets that provide on-demand transport. A different configuration where shared mobility is delivered by a fleet of six-seat vehicles (“Shared Taxis”) that offer on-demand, door-to-door shared rides in conjunction with a fleet of eight-person and 16-person mini-buses (“Taxi-Buses”) that serve pop-up stops on demand and provide transfer-free rides is examined here.

Electromobility including electric trains and trams provides the opportunity for a clean, green mobility future that assigns dirty diesel cars and trains that choke cities and commuters to the dustbin of obsolescence. The outstanding question is not if, but how quickly the disruption occurs and to what extent Europe captures the economic opportunities from this shift. Electric vehicles are in their adolescents, and about to be highly disruptive. Through constructive policy interventions at an EU, national and local level the technology and market can quickly mature and mobility become quieter, cleaner and its contribution to climate change drastically reduced.

Sustainable transport is an important enabler of poverty alleviation and reducing inequality if done right. The i-STEP program was initiated to safeguard that growing support for sustainable transport in global processes and sustainable development. It fully acknowledges the importance of urban and rural transport in the alleviation of poverty, as well as the promotion of inclusive development and equality.

The recent adoption of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change have set clearer long-term goals for transport sector.

This report gives an overview of 15 voluntary multi-stakeholder initiatives on sustainable, low carbon transport, the manner in which they measure progress, and their alignment with the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, the UN HABITAT III outcome and the Paris Agreement.

This report explores land transport emissions trends and mitigation potential relative to the 2 degree Celsius Target (2DS) and 1.5 degree Celsius Target (1.5DS) called for under the Paris Agreement on climate change.

This book offers systematically assesses the performance of electric and hybrid buses in urban areas. It presents a complete set of technical scenarios and case studies and discusses key developments in intelligent vehicle technologies.