Policy Brief

This policy brief focuses on the changes in warehousing and distribution facility and employment location and uses measures of relative location to infer potential truck vehicle miles traveled impacts. 

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.

Researchers examined what makes a feebate policy work and how this strategy can be leveraged to shift US vehicle markets. This research included a review and analysis of feebate mechanisms in European countries.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis examined the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on telecommuting patterns among various socio-demographic groups in the United States.

This policy brief summarizes findings from the research project on successful application of permeable pavement design and performance with special emphasis on stormwater management, water quality benefits, and identification of knowledge and data gaps.

This brief summarizes the research that established a framework for measuring economic competitiveness and established 2030 emissions targets for the California Sustainable Freight Action Plan.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis reviewed 10 recent studies of the total cost of ownership of battery-electric trucks, now and in the future, compared to a baseline diesel truck to derive general findings that are robust across all the studies.

This policy brief summarizes findings from a review of an extensive body of academic literature on the topic of land use policies and infrastructure investments.

UC Davis researchers examined how ride-hailing affects the total amount of driving (measured in vehicle miles traveled, VMT) as well as greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

Researchers at the University of California, Davis surveyed California residents about their personal attitudes and preferences, lifestyles, travel patterns, vehicle ownership, adoption and use of new mobility services, and personal and household characteristics, and this brief summarizes the results of multiple studies that have used this dataset to generate insights into the impact of ridehailing services on the use of other travel modes and on car ownership prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.