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A National Assessment of the Air Quality and Health Impacts of Vehicle Travel and Electrification: Phase 1 Near Roadway Impacts and Equity Analysis

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

This project will address limitations in the current literature surrounding air quality impacts of vehicle traffic, especially in underserved communities. The team will employ a refined near-roadway emission exposure surrogate that balances spatial precision and computational burden to estimate changes in exposure levels and health risks and the distribution of these burdens over time as EV adoption increases.

Project Status

In Progress

A Tool to Predict Fleet-Wide Heavy-Duty Vehicle Fuel-Saving Benefits from Low Rolling Resistance Tires

Research Product Type

Research Report

In this study, researchers developed a tool to predict the fleet-wide fuel-saving benefits from low rolling resistance tires.

Advanced Battery Technologies: Bus, Heavy-Duty Vocational Truck, and Construction Machinery Applications

Research Product Type

Research Report

This study provides a comprehensive review of current research on lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries, evaluating their development status and the challenges to commercialization. A key objective of this study is to assess the progress of advanced battery development and its influence on the further commercialization of buses, vocational trucks, and construction machinery.

Air Resources Board Seminar: Activity Patterns of Heavy-Duty Vehicles and Their Implications on Real-World In-Use Emissions

This seminar summarizes differences in heavy-duty vehicles in order to develop appropriate emission control strategies and policies.

Assessment of Requirements, Costs, and Benefits of Providing Battery Charging for Battery Electric Heavy-duty Trucks at Safety Roadside Rest Areas Facilities

Principal Investigator Andrew Burke, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis

This research will determine whether charging at roadside rest areas, especially those along interstate highways, are likely to meet the needs of the trucks that have multi-day trips.

Project Status

Complete

Assessment of Requirements, Costs, and Benefits of Providing Charging Facilities for Battery-Electric Heavy-Duty Trucks at Safety Roadside Rest Areas

Research Product Type

Research Report

The objective of this research was to determine the possibilities for and barriers to the provision of battery charging infrastructure for heavy-duty electric trucks at roadside rest areas in California.

Battery Technologies for Current and Future Heavy-Duty and Transit Electric Vehicles

Principal Investigator Andrew Burke, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis

This research project will study battery technologies that can significantly increase the energy density to at least 500 Wh/kg or higher and reduce charging time to fifteen minutes or lower and have a cell cost to the original equipment manufacturer of $70/kWh or lower in a large battery pack (>500 kWh).

Project Status

Complete

Dataset: Real world brake activity of heavy-duty vehicles

Research Product Type

Data

This study uses a heavy-duty test vehicle to investigate the braking activity of HDVs.

Dataset: Routing of Battery Electric Heavy-Duty Trucks for Drayage Operations

Research Product Type

Data

This dataset presents the data utilized for the project, "Routing of Battery Electric Heavy-Duty Trucks for Drayage Operations".

Development and Application of Environmentally Friendly Intelligent Transportation System (ECO-ITS) Freight Strategies

Research Product Type

Research Report

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.