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A Funding Compromise Can Set Transportation on Path Towards Sustainability

Research Product Type

White Paper

This white paper evaluates different transportation funding reforms, with specific focus on funding sustainability, environmental sustainability, and social justice.

Advancing Equitable Electric Vehicle Adoption: Addressing home charging barriers and costs

Principal Investigator Dana Rowangould, Ph.D.
University of Vermont

This project evaluates the relationships between EV adoption, home charger installation, and housing characteristics as well as the costs of home charging installation for homes of different types in the City of Burlington, Vermont. The project also investigates the sociodemographic makeup of residents living in homes with greater barriers to home charging using national data.

Project Status

In Progress

Applying Vulnerability Assessments and Triple Bottom Line Considerations to Rail Infrastructure Management: Toward an Integrated Framework for Rail Resilience and Sustainability

Principal Investigator Adair Garrett
Georgia Institute of Technology

This research will apply climate vulnerability assessments and the TBL approach to sustainability to rail infrastructure planning and resource allocation decision making. The results will be validated by rail operators and administrators to support improved investments in rail that are resilient to extreme events, protect the natural environment, enhance economic competitiveness, and improve societal quality of life, equitably.

Project Status

Complete

Dataset: Data from: Understanding real-world brake activity: A key to assessing non-tailpipe emission sources for sustainable transportation and communities

Research Product Type

Data

This is the dataset for project "Understanding Real-World Brake Activity: A Key to Assessing Non-Tailpipe Emission Sources for Sustainable Transportation and Communities" (UCR-DOT-1013).

Dataset: Enhancing Climate Resilience for Rail Systems: Multi-Capability Performance Monitoring Approach & Sustainability Integration

Research Product Type

Data

Datasets were compiled for the project "Applying Vulnerability Assessments and Triple Bottom Line Considerations to Rail Infrastructure Management: Toward an Integrated Framework for Rail Resilience and Sustainability" on enhancing climate resilience for rail systems.

Electric Vehicles and Environmental Justice

Principal Investigator David S. Rapson, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis

This project examines environmental justice concerns of plug-in electric vehicle transactions.

Project Status

Complete

Enhancing Extreme Weather Resilience for Rail Systems: Multi-Capability Performance Monitoring Approach & Sustainability Integration

Research Product Type

Research Report

Based on a review of studies across freight, intercity passenger, and urban transit rail systems, metrics for resilience are identified, categorized, and analyzed along the disruption and recovery timeline (from before disruption occurrence to long after system recovery) in this report.

From Transportation Equity to Transportation Justice: Within, Through, and Beyond the State

Research Product Type

Associated Publication

Transportation policies, plans, and projects all flow through state institutions because of the substantial cost of infrastructure and the need to assess transportation system performance, includin

Incorporating Infrastructure and Vehicle Technology Requirements, Changes in Demand, and Decarbonization Policies Considerations into Freight Planning

Principal Investigator Miguel Jaller, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis

This research aims to develop an equitable and sustainable freight‐oriented land use methodology to support future planning activities, facilitate the integration of freight activity across urban, suburban, and rural areas, and facilitate the transition of heavy‐ and medium‐duty vehicles toward zero‐emission. The project will analyze freight distribution patterns considering supply and demand and estimate social, environmental, and labor impacts in different communities.

Project Status

In Progress

Incorporating Stakeholder Perspectives in Industrial Ecology: A Justice-Oriented Analysis of the Lithium-ion Battery Value Chain

Principal Investigator Margaret Slattery
University of California, Davis

This research responds to identified gaps within the field of life cycle analysis while contributing a more nuanced, accurate understanding of the lithium-ion batteries value chain.

Project Status

Complete