Positive Zero Transport Futures
A living lab approach enabling transport innovations with
zero emissions and positive social outcomes
Our goal is to explore, test, and implement transportation innovations that will achieve low to zero emissions while bearing positive health and social impacts.
NEWS and events
SEMINAR SERIES
Place-Based Solutions for Decarbonizing Transport
Approximately 20,000 school buses carry over 833,000 students to school every day in Ontario, with over 90% of these buses running on diesel fuel. Air pollution from diesel buses has been linked to serious health and educational impacts on the children they transport each and every day. The rapid deployment of electric school buses across Ontario’s school boards would protect children’s health, reduce carbon emissions, and strengthen the province’s automotive manufacturing industry. Beyond the numerous benefits electric school buses can provide, they offer a rich opportunity for community collaboration. Successful transitions to improve the school bus system would bring together school boards, school transportation providers, manufacturers across the supply chain, policymakers at the local, provincial, and national levels, and academia conducting research on the benefits and logistics of school bus electrification.
Past seminars:
"Electrifying Ontario's School Bus Fleet:
Health Benefits, Economic Implications, Logistic Challenges, and Community Engagement" (Dec. 14, 2023)
Organized by the
University of Toronto,
Positive Zero Transport Futures
Co-sponsors: Mobility Network and Climate Positive Energy
SEMINAR SERIES
Electrifying Ontario's School Bus Fleet
Approximately 20,000 school buses carry over 833,000 students to school every day in Ontario, with over 90% of these buses running on diesel fuel. Air pollution from diesel buses has been linked to serious health and educational impacts on the children they transport each and every day. The rapid deployment of electric school buses across Ontario’s school boards would protect children’s health, reduce carbon emissions, and strengthen the province’s automotive manufacturing industry. Beyond the numerous benefits electric school buses can provide, they offer a rich opportunity for community collaboration. Successful transitions to improve the school bus system would bring together school boards, school transportation providers, manufacturers across the supply chain, policymakers at the local, provincial, and national levels, and academia conducting research on the benefits and logistics of school bus electrification.
explore our research and projects
Positive Zero provides a space where all stakeholders, including industry and government, explore the value of community-based participatory projects in real-world case-studies.
