sustainability

The California Concrete Pavement Conference

The premier West Coast concrete pavement conference focused on the design and construction of resilient, long-life concrete roads, highways, bridges, and parking areas. Individuals had the opportunity to learn from top industry professionals, researchers, policymakers, and industry stakeholders. They discovered impactful innovations in the design and construction of durable and sustainable concrete infrastructure.

Total Cost of Ownership Spreadsheet Tool

Research Product Type
Calculator
The Total Cost of Ownership Spreadsheet Tool (TCOST) is a Microsoft Excel-based calculator that simplifies and integrates the main functions, data, and outputs of pre-existing models (MOVES-Matrix and the GREET Model) and other external sources of economic data.

Transportation Fundamentals

In 2019, UC Davis experts met with a cross section of policy stakeholders to discuss sustainable transportation topics in California and the rest of the US over the coming years. The Transportation Fundamentals briefing series was an opportunity for staffers in the Legislature, Regulatory Agencies and NGOs who are new to the sustainable transportation space to familiarize themselves with important technologies, statistics and trends in electric vehicles, alternative fuels, sustainable freight.

Understanding Real-World Brake Activity: A Key to Assessing Non-Tailpipe Emission Sources

Research Product Type
Research Report
This study investigates the impact of vehicle brake activity on mobile-source particulate matter (PM) emissions at signalized intersections using a multi-modal data collection approach. The research integrates LiDAR-based trajectory detection, roadside camera monitoring, drone surveillance, and in-vehicle sensor data to analyze braking behaviors and their associated emissions.

Understanding Real-World Brake Activity: A Key to Assessing Non-Tailpipe Emission Sources for Sustainable Transportation and Communities

  • Principal Investigator Guoyuan Wu
  • University of California, Riverside
In this study, the research team will: 1) measure real-world brake activities of a large volume of vehicles traversing major roadway segments (e.g., near signalized intersections) by leveraging advanced roadside sensing technologies, e.g., Light Detection and Ranging and/or high-definition camera, as well as deep learning-based computer vision algorithms; and 2) construct the real-world brake activity database and supplement for the non-tailpipe emissions inventory.
Project Status
Complete
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