electric bicycle (eBike)

This dissertation provides an integrated examination of urban heat mitigation strategies and the effectiveness of electric vehicle (EV) purchase incentives, employing innovative methodologies across its four chapters to address pressing environmental and policy challenges.

This project studies four slow street programs in the U.S.—in Los Angeles, Portland, Oakland, and San Francisco—to study the impact of slow streets on non-motorized travel. Dockless scooter travel is used for the empirical analysis.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis collected GPS-based travel diary data from individual micromobility users from 48 cities in the US and examined their travel behavior and micromobility use patterns. This policy brief summarizes the findings from that research and provides policy implications.

Researchers at the UC Davis surveyed households and bike-share users in the Sacramento region and used both behavioral modeling and market segmentation approaches to identify opportunities for increasing demand while improving access for low-income groups.