attitudes | National Center for Sustainable Transportation

Accelerating Commercialization of Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicles

Principal Investigator Kenneth Kurani, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis

This project evaluates the current electric vehicle market in California, paying close attention to attitudes and sociodemographic factors.

Project Status

Complete

Are We Hardwiring Gender Differences into the Plug-In Electric Vehicle Market?

Principal Investigator Kenneth Kurani, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis

This study compares electric vehicle adoption and attitudes based on gender differences.

Project Status

Complete

Assessment of Critical Barriers to Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Deployment – Workshop Series

Principal Investigator Amy Myers Jaffe
University of California, Davis

This project looked at attitudes and adoption of alternative vehicle fuels. The researchers also analyzed barriers to alternative fuel adoption, and strategies for improving technologies.

Project Status

Complete

Best Practices for Electric Vehicle Cost Calculator User Interfaces

Research Product Type

Policy Brief

Researchers at UC Davis drew upon a systematic review of vehicle cost calculators and findings from multiple user experience studies to articulate best practices for the user interface design of effective vehicle cost calculators.

Bike Lanes and Slow Car Speeds Can Improve Bicycling Comfort for Some (But Not All) People

Research Product Type

Policy Brief

This policy brief summarizes findings from research on perceived comfort of bicycling in different road environments in order to provide guidance for communities aiming to increase bicycling.

Building Stocks of Experience: How Beliefs About How You Can, Ought, and Like To Travel Influence Youths’ Current and Future Travel Behavior

Principal Investigator Calvin Thigpen, PhD
University of California, Davis

This dissertation studies how individual experiences and skills can inform one's attitudes and adoption of different travel modes. Specifically, the researcher focuses on how childhood bicycling experiences and teenage driver's license delays impact adult travel behavior.

Project Status

Complete

Can an Incentive-Based approach to rebalancing a Dock-less Bike-share system Work? Evidence from Sacramento, California

Research Product Type

Associated Publication

This paper examines bike-share users’ willingness-to-walk to pick up a bike or drop off a bike at some distance from their origins or destinations if rewarded and to identify characteristics influencing willingness-to-walk.

Capitol Hill Briefing: The Future of Sustainable Transportation

Researchers representing the National Center for Sustainable Transportation highlighted key challenges and trends shaping transportation in the future and pathways forward for better aligning economic, environmental, and societal goals in the transportation sector.

Jan 12, 2015 @ 11:30am - 1:30pm
2261 Rayburn Building – Room B-354, Washington, DC
Event Details

Dataset: Bicycling comfort video experiment

Research Product Type

Data

This tabular data can be used to evaluate perceived bicycling comfort on distinct state highways in California.

Dataset: Exploring the role of attitude in the acceptance of self-driving shuttles

Research Product Type

Data

This data supports the project and report, "Exploring the Role of Attitude in the Acceptance of Self-driving Shuttles." The information collected in this study was categorized into two general groups, individual characteristics and attitude.