mobility (general)

This policy brief discusses the benefits of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which have generated considerable enthusiasm in the transportation community due to their potential for improving roadway safety, reducing traffic congestion, and enhancing the mobility of people and goods.

This study evaluates the impacts of the pandemic on mobility by analyzing micro panel data. The panel makes it possible to observe initial trends in travel behavior change, adoption of online shopping, active travel, and use of shared mobility services.

This report systematically reviewed the growing literature related to the application of advanced and novel materials (ANMs) and green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) to reduce urban heat island (UHI) effects and implemented a survey of urban planners and public works engineers to assess the current and planned use of these strategies and identify barriers to implementation.

This report describes the scope and scale of car access in rural areas, identifies barriers that rural zero-car and car-deficit households face in their mobility and access, and proposes personal and policy-level adaptations that would help these households achieve their mobility and access needs using descriptive analysis from US census microdata and interviews with 22 residents of California’s Central Valley.

Extreme heat, intensified by urban heat islands and climate change, increasingly affects travelers, especially vulnerable populations such as older adults, people with disabilities, and those with chronic diseases. This dissertation develops a comprehensive system to evaluate cumulative heat exposure at the trip level, focusing on these vulnerable groups.

Researchers explore the users of the new mobility services and their relation to electric vehicles preferences by analyzing two large-scale mobility service surveys.

This report focuses on the analyses of the data collected in this project, in particular on the differences in attitudes towards transportation and the environment among different generational groups, the adoption and use of shared mobility services, and their relationship with vehicle ownership, the interest in the adoption of alternative fuel vehicles, and the interest in the future adoption of connected and automated vehicles.

This paper proposes a broad classification of connected automated vehicle applications examined in great detail.