Research Report

This report presents creative engagement activities based on the Designing with the Sun: Solar Curriculum Project that teaches high school and undergraduate students the principles of solar design and the steps needed to design and build a solar charging station.

This research developed EV Explorer 2.0, an online vehicle cost calculator (VCC) to meet the requirements of transportation network company (TNC) drivers considering acquiring an electric vehicle (EV).

This research proposes an adaptive strategy for connected eco-driving towards a signalized intersection under real world conditions.

The adoption of battery electric trucks (BETs) has the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions; however, challenges like shorter driving range and lower payload capacity necessitates a better understanding of energy-efficient dispatching of BET fleets. This project addresses that concern through developing an adaptive large neighborhood search algorithm that, through experimenting with a real-world case study, is shown to achieve significant energy consumption reduction.

This research undertook an evaluation of the sidewalk inventory on a relatively large geographic scale, which lays a solid foundation for a variety of active-mobility-focused applications and related research.

This project proposes to improve vehicle utilization and energy efficiency by modeling and evaluating the innovative shared mobility services for freight, with a specific focus on on-demand food delivery. Overall, the shared mobility service has great potential to reduce freight transportation VMT cost and emission. With well-designed delivery policy, the on-demand food delivery can mitigate traffic in the urban city and bring a greener transportation system.

This report evaluates the market status and potential freight market penetration of zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) and near ZEVs in the medium and heavy duty class within the California market.

This project investigated the distribution of public health impacts resulting from a regional transportation plan in the six-county Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) region.

This research is aimed at developing and evaluating eco-friendly intelligent transportation systems strategies for freight vehicles and traffic, with a focus on strategies that are applicable to the transportation systems in the South Coast Air Basin.