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1.1 Title and date of the presentation
Title of the video provided is called Environmental Studies Seminar Series, and basically this is a series of presentation recordings that happen at the UTSC campus hold by Professor James MacLellan. In this presentation, to be more specific, the speaker is named Dorinda So, she offered some valuable ideas regarding how transportation and commuting matters under the context of the environment of sustainable development, and this presentation happened in March 15th, 2023.

1.2 Author’s name and affiliation
The guest who gave this presentation is named Dorinda So, and she has worked in many different institutions, such as the Canadian government, private sector, and etc.

1.3 Synopsis of the talk
In this presentation, Dorinda So mainly discussed the focus on climate change adaption and the importance of including mitigation efforts, sustainable development, and transportation solutions under the context of the UTSC university campus. In addition, Dorinda So also discussed the fact that organizations should put their focus on transportation demand management in order to encourage sustainable transportation and reduce congestion by working with employees at different workplaces.

1.4 Link to the URL
This presentation can be found in here

2.1 Ethos
Dorinda So is an urban planner and sustainability consultant working in the city of Vancouver, Canada. She has a rich history of working experience in the fields of sustainability, climate change, and urban agriculture. Nowadays, she is currently working as a sustainability consultant, her focuses are on helping organizations to develop and implement sustainable solutions that promote social equity and environmental management, which aligns to the central idea that she shared in the presentation, that was the key to modern urban transportation and commuting services should be established upon the fact of sustainability.

Sustainable Transport: A State-of-the-Art Literature Review
This paper was written by Monika Roman who works in the department of logistics at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. In this paper, Monika gave a comprehensive study and analysis towards the topic of transportation and sustainability, in particular, Monika took the perspective of various policies to demonstrate obstacles that developing a sustainable transportation method would face when actually implementing it in our societies. For example, congestion is one of the biggest problems when people try to implement sustainable transportation mediums in our societies, in Monika's paper, she mentioned a special way of utilizing "Congestion Pricing" as a tool to make policy in order to promote the sustainable transportation mediums. In essential, this policy involves charging drivers a fee for using certain roads or entering some certain areas during the traffic hours, which can indirectly motivate people to use alternative modes of transportation or just to commute at off-peak hours. And this is an innovative approach to implement the sustainable transportation mediums, and can definitely bring some insights to Dorinda. ==== Sustainable road transport from the energy and modern society points of view: Perspectives for the automotive industry and production ==== In this paper, the authors explores the challenges and opportunities for achieving sustainable road transport under the context of modern society. One of the highlights in this paper is that the authors provided a detailed analysis of the key drivers in order to implement. sustainable road transport. For example, the source of energy was one of the major discussion topics in this paper in terms of how sustainable road transport can be achieved in the modern society, to be more specific, the author suggests that the adoption of alternative fuels, such as biofuels, natural gas, and hydrogen, should be utilized more effectively in order to reduce gas emissions and improve energy efficiency. In other words, the authors has provided concrete solutions to convince readers that sustainable road transport is not only necessary, but also somewhat mandatory in the Long-term perspective, which can be more convincing and attractive than just simply telling audiences that we need sustainable transportation.

Green logistics - Modern transportation process technology
In this paper, the authors discussed the idea of sustainability of transportation in terms of a term called the green logistics. The green logistics refers to the integration of environmental considerations into transportation and logistics operations, including the use of alternative fuels, route optimization, and supply chain management. On top of the common ideas like promoting electric and hybrid vehicles and usage of clean energy, the interestingly innovative idea that appeared in this paper is the idea of route optimization software. This refers to use computer softwares to calculate some data in order to help companies plan more efficient delivery routes, reducing fuel consumption and emissions while improving delivery times. This can help Dorinda in a way that bringing new brave idea to think about how to utilize the broad Canadian soil to implement the sustainable transportation.

Development of System Solution for Public Transport System Sustainability and Adapting it to the Challenge of COVID-19
In this paper, the authors explores the concept of sustainability in the public transport system and facing the impact of COVID-19 pandemic. Choosing this paper to discuss is to give an extreme example involving the implementation of sustainable transportation system under severe external variables. One of the major advantages of this paper is to advocate the need of sustainable transportation for the sake of the public health, and this is also quite an interesting factor to consider about when trying to implement the sustainable transportation in our societies.

Toward a Policy on a Sustainable Transportation System
Similar to every paper related to the topic of sustainable transportation, this paper, just like every other paper we have covered above talks very similar topics as well like why we need sustainable transportation and how we are likely going to build it. But in this paper, the author mentions the idea of transit-oriented development, to be more specific, the author notes that compact, mixed-use communities located near public transit can reduce the need for car travel, promoting active transportation. This may help Dorinda to think about the structure of urban communities in order to implement the sustainable transportation system.

2.3 Pathos
In terms of groups of people who can be benefited by this project, I think, first of all, all of our university students can gain something by learning this project, the reason for this is because if the sustainable transportation system could have become reality, then they could have saved a lot of money in their daily expenditure. In addition, by carefully learning this project, they could also be likely finding a prospect career within the field.

3 Synthesis related to the presentation
Overall, it is quite obvious to see necessarily of the sustainable transportation system towards development of a city. It comes with a lot of advantages such as public health, daily transportation convenience, and more clean and healthy environment for human to live in this planet. From a broad perspective, the commonly shared and accepted solutions are to promoting hybrid and clean-energy vehicles, promoting the source of clean energy like electricity or natural gas compared to traditional fuels, publishing new social policies as restrictions towards using traditional energy, and etc. While these are all great ideas and excellent solutions to try to improve the current situations going on in the global level, they are essentially, in my personal opinion, lack of something important to make them become reality instead of staying as fantasies. It is reasonable and logical to see this way, because these current ideas or solutions are basically beneficial to our human kind regardless the short-term perspective or long-term perspective, and it is quite obvious to see the fact that majority of them are not possible in reality due to many restrictions and obstacles. For examples, everybody knows the fact that the hybrid and clean-energy vehicles are beneficial to our environment, the fact is that, however, not many people are currently driving the new-energy car. The key problem arises due to monetary reasons. In the consumer's perspective, the cost to buy a new-energy car is not significantly cheaper than the traditional cars, so the attraction is not strong enough for them to change a new car. From the perspective of industries, the principal to acquire and apply clean energy is significantly higher than burning traditional fuels, so companies are barely willing to spend that much money to shift to new clean energy. Therefore, in my opinion, instead of figuring out various potential solutions to implement the sustainable transportation system, the first thing people should seriously discuss and talk about is to figure out a way to lower the money needed to acquire and use clean energy.

4. Bibliometric information
1. Toward a policy on a sustainable transportation system. (n.d.). Retrieved April 10, 2023, from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3141/1670-05

2. Roman, M. (2022, November 28). Sustainable transport: A state-of-the-art literature review. MDPI. Retrieved April 10, 2023, from https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/23/8997

3. Author links open overlay panelB. Dalla Chiara a, a, b, AbstractsThis paper attempts to provide an overall analysis of the most recent, Zapata, C., Wells, P., Veleva, V., Schwanen, T., Lai, J., Labuschagne, C., Kanninen, B. J., Hannan, M. A., Graham-Rowe, E., Frondel, M., Christensen, T. B., Chéron, E., Al-Alawi, B. M., Aftabuzzaman, M., Government, A. B. A. R. E. A., … (EC), E. C. (2016, June 4). Sustainable road transport from the Energy and Modern Society Points of view: Perspectives for the automotive industry and production. Journal of Cleaner Production. Retrieved April 10, 2023, from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652616306837

4. Green Logistics - modern transportation process technology - researchgate. (n.d.). Retrieved April 10, 2023, from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355411621_Green_logistics_-_Modern_transportation_process_technology

5. Patlins, A. (2021). Development of system solution for public transport system sustainability and adapting it to the challenge of covid-19. Transportation Research Procedia. Retrieved April 10, 2023, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8292553/