National Center for Sustainable Transportation

The Future of Connected and Self-Driving Cars: Assessing the Trade-offs Between Safety, Mobility, and Environmental Innovation

Researcher Matt Barth describes a holistic assessment and examines the co-benefits and trade-offs between safety, mobility and the environment for a variety of CAV applications.

Potential to Build Current Natural Gas Infrastructure to accommodate the Future Conversion of Near-Zero Transportation Technology

This project aimed to complement The California Air Resource Board’s on-going work on technology assessment by exploring how the near-term development of natural gas infrastructure, in the heavy-duty transportation sector, can be implemented to include technology that can best facilitate the long-term conversion to near-zero technology.

Jul 18, 2017 @ 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Cal EPA Headquarters, 1001 I Street, Sacramento, CA
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Air Resources Board Seminar: Activity Patterns of Heavy-Duty Vehicles and Their Implications on Real-World In-Use Emissions

This seminar summarizes differences in heavy-duty vehicles in order to develop appropriate emission control strategies and policies.

Air Resources Board Research Seminar: Modeling Household Vehicle and Transportation Choice and Usage – Part B: Empirical Estimation of Household Vehicle Purchase and Usage Decisions

The seminar summarizes a study that analyzed multi-year statewide household vehicle-level data to explore the entire process of household vehicle choice, holding, and usage.

Air Resources Board Research Seminar: Life-Cycle Assessment and Co-Benefits of Cool Pavements

The seminar summarizes a pavement life-cycle assessment method for California cities that researchers translated into a dynamic decisions support tool.

Air Research Board Research Seminar: Modeling Household Vehicle and Transportation Choice and Usage – Part A: Factors Related to Voluntary Choice of Low Vehicle Ownership and Usage

This seminar is based off a study that analyzed travel survey and attitudinal data to investigate the impact of household demographics, individual attitudes, and residential location on vehicle ownership and usage decisions in California.

Apr 24, 2017 @ 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Cal EPA Headquarters, 1001 "I" Street, Sacramento, CA
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Integrated Transport Planning in a Segmented City: The Case of Jerusalem

In this seminar, the implications of market segmentation for public transport planning are discussed in the context of Jerusalem.

Analysis of Advanced Management of Curbside Parking

The seminar summarized a study that analyzed drivers’ search behavior for parking. The study reveals a reservation-based service can improve the performance of the parking system.

Climate Change, Infrastructure, Policy and Governance – Who Should Be Doing What?

Exploring how to facilitate cross jurisdictional collaboration on climate action planning and implementation is new territory that layers in all levels of government and raises big questions about who will use what resources to protect and preserve infrastructure.

Multi-Hazard Resilience Quantification in Interdependent Civil Infrastructure Systems

This talk described developed mathematical tools for quantifying the maximum resilience level of transportation networks and simultaneously determining the optimal set of mitigation, preparedness and recovery actions necessary to achieve this level.