The NCST produces two-page Policy Briefs to help summarize and synthesize findings from its research and to highlight the policy and/or practice implications in an easy-to-understand, accessible style and format.
This policy brief summarizes findings from UC Davis research that examined how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the use of ridehailing and other travel behaviors among various sociodemographic groups.
This research brief summarizes the findings from University of Vermont work to develop a new parameter that could serve as the basis for future hybrid vehicle emissions models: the instantaneous hybridization factor.
This policy brief summarizes findings from research to develop a framework for considering the monetary and non-monetary costs of future travel choices.
This policy brief summarizes findings from research to analyze the potential for zero-emission or near-zero-emission heavy-duty trucks to be used in short-haul drayage services.
This policy brief summarizes findings from recent research estimated PEVs’ total cost of ownership for the period of 2020–2030, their cost-competitiveness with conventional vehicles, and consequently the cost of electrification of California’s fleet of more than 30 million light-duty vehicles.
This policy brief summarizes findings from research that surveyed California PEV buyers 2–7 years after they first purchased their EV to understand whether they have continued to choose PEVs with subsequent purchases, and if not, what factors may have led to their discontinuance of the technology.
This policy brief summarizes findings and policy implications from UC Davis research that developed models for e-commerce demand, last-mile delivery operations, and cost and sustainability assessment, then applied this modeling framework to a case study in Southern California to evaluate the potential impact of these strategies under different delivery scenarios
This policy brief summarizes findings from UC Davis research that used life cycle assessment, a modeling tool for evaluating a product or activity’s environmental impacts through all stages of its life, to quantify the environmental performance of complete streets.
This policy brief summarizes findings from and policy implications of research that developed a methodology that provides an ordinal measure of demand-side food access.
This policy brief summarizes interviews with stakeholders from 38 agencies and organizations throughout California on how they view the possible impacts of ridehailing and the policies that might best address those impacts.
This policy brief summarizes findings from research that reviewed the literature on property values, business sentiment, and productivity to understand how VMT-reducing place-making can help boost neighborhood economies.
This policy brief summarizes the findings from and policy implications of work to understand potential users’ perceptions of safety and security risks posed by intertwined social and technical systems of e-SAVs and proposed a framework to advance research, policy, and system design.
This policy brief summarizes findings and provides policy implications from research that analyzed life cycle assessment literature to understand whether alkali-activated materials can achieve the same mechanical performance as Portland cement with lower CO2 emissions.
This policy brief summarizes findings from research that compared results from the NCST Induced Travel Calculator to the induced travel analysis completed for five highway expansion projects' actual environmental impact assessments.
This policy brief summarizes findings and policy implications from research that assessed the administration of the gasoline tax, including collection and distribution of revenues, to determine what barriers and opportunities might exist for a road user charge funding mechanism.
This policy brief summarizes findings from UC Riverside research that analyzed several scenarios using the California Public Utilities Commission’s Resolve power system planning model to understand how vehicle electrification, renewable energy standards, and GHG reduction goals affect California’s mid- to long-term energy storage needs.
Researchers at the University of California, Davis modeled the travel effects of changes in drop-off and pick-up activity and parking supply that might be triggered by widespread automated vehicle use in San Francisco’s city center. This policy brief summarizes the findings from that research and provides policy implications.
This brief summarizes research findings from the University of California, Riverside, on a prediction-based, adaptive connected eco-driving strategy to account for real-world uncertainties.
This brief summarizes findings from researchers at the University of Southern California who developed an optimization-based vehicle scheduling model that allows for a “street exchange” in which empty containers can go directly from importers to exporters without returning to the port.
Researchers at the University of Southern California developed a centrally coordinated freight routing system and ran several simulations to minimize the social costs of freight transportation, also accounting for adoption of electric trucks. This policy brief summarizes the findings from that research and provides policy implications.
