U.S. Department of Transportation

Do Fuel Taxes Face Ideological or Economic Opposition? Evidence from Voting on Proposition 6 and Lessons for Policymaking

  • Principal Investigator Erich Muehlegger, Ph.D.
  • University of California, Davis
This project seeks to unpack the political opposition to gasoline taxes, by examining how precinct-level support for California Proposition 6, which would have immediately reduced state gasoline taxes, covaries with the political ideology of voters and the economic burden of gasoline taxes.
Project Status
In Progress

Dynamic Routing for Ridesharing

  • Principal Investigator Maged Dessouky, Ph.D.
  • University of Southern California
The objective of this research is to develop dynamic routing algorithms to support ridesharing.
Project Status
Complete

Dynamic Scheduling of Chassis Movements with Chassis Processing Facilities in the Loop

  • Principal Investigator Anastasios Chassiakos, Ph.D.
  • California State University Long Beach
This work studies the optimization of scheduling of chassis and container movements at the operational level for individual trucking companies when Chassis Processing Facilities (CPFs) are available for use in the vicinity of a container port within a major metropolitan area.
Project Status
Complete

Eco-Driving for Transit Vehicles

  • Principal Investigator Randall Guensler, Ph.D.
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
This project evaluates benefits from transit vehicle eco-driving.
Project Status
Complete

Eco-Driving to Reduce Emissions (Behavioral Focus) - Buses

  • Principal Investigator Randall Guensler, Ph.D.
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
The researchers simulated the implementation of transit eco-driving strategies in an effort to reduce fuel consumption and emissions from transit operations.
Project Status
Complete