policy

Researchers critically review the methods used by the Environmental Protection Agency to project near- and long-term compliance costs under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), and draw lessons from the RFS experience to date that would improve the program’s efficiency.

This report describes the development and use of a U.S. energy system optimization model (US-TIMES) in order to analyze the reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that can come about through policy targets.

The research objectives of this dissertation are to develop a modeling framework within an advanced activity-based travel demand model that can be used to assess the distribution of transportation cost and benefits across communities of interest and implement a data structure and variable tracking system that can be implemented within and across various modeling tools to ensure that data needed for equity assessment transfer between models, and that outputs from combined models can be used to assess equity impacts.

To better understand the dynamic between wildlife and vehicle traffic in Northern California, a study examined whether State Route 49 acts as a barrier to movements of two similar species with different tolerances to human activity. This policy brief summarizes findings from that study and discusses the policy implications.

In this paper researchers discuss the economics of climate change.

High-resolution data from Uber and Lyft in California are used to provide insights into the use of electric vehicles in ride-hailing.

Researchers developed feebate structures that are acceptable to key stakeholders, fair across demographic/income groups and economically efficient.