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Framework for Developing Economic Competitiveness Measures for the California Sustainable Freight Action Plan

Principal Investigator Genevieve Giuliano, Ph.D.
University of Southern California

This project develops a framework to identify policies that encourage competitiveness and economic growth in California's freight industry.

Project Status

Complete

From LOS to VMT: Repurposing Impact Fee Programs Since Adoption of SB 743

Research Product Type

White Paper

This white paper assesses how cities are modifying transportation impact fees in response to Senate Bill (SB) 743, adopted in 2013 to orient environmental review of transportation impacts of development projects and plans in California to support sustainable development.

From Trend Spotting to Trend Setting: Behavioral Analysis to Guide Transformative Mobility

This talk presented behavioral analysis approaches that focus on modeling and influencing trends of travel behavior with an objective of developing tools to guide this transformation towards a more sustainable, efficient, and equitable system.

Nov 13, 2015 @ 1:40pm - 3:00pm
Institute of Transportation Studies, 1605 Tilia Street, Room 1103, Davis, CA
Event Details

GreenFLY

Research Product Type

Calculator

In 2015, NCST researchers began work on GreenFLY.ucdavis.edu, a demo flight search website that shows the emissions of each flight as

Hyperlocal Monitoring of Traffic-Related Air Pollution to Assess Near-Term Impacts of Sustainable Transportation Interventions

Research Product Type

Research Report

This study investigates the impact of traffic-related air pollutants, specifically NO2 and PM2.5, in Riverside's Innovation Corridor, a six-mile roadway serving key urban centers and logistics activities.

Identifying Opportunities and Implementation Barriers to Heat Mitigation Through Application of Novel Materials and Improved Pedestrian Infrastructure Design

Principal Investigator Elizabeth Doran, Ph.D.
University of Vermont

This project reviews the growing literature related to the application of alterative and novel paving materials and green stormwater infrastructure to reduce urban heat islands.

Project Status

Complete

Impact of Legislative Mandates on Transportation Workforce Capacity

Principal Investigator Thomas O'Brien, Ph.D.
California State University Long Beach

This project aims to understand how the sustainable transportation goals of California Senate Bill 375 impact the state's regional transportation workforce.

Project Status

Complete

Implementing Pricing Schemes to Meet a Variety of Transportation Goals

Principal Investigator Alan Jenn, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis

This study focuses on combining road charges (mileage-based fees) with pricing strategies to meet affordability, equity, congestion, and emissions goals.

Project Status

Complete

Improved Data and Tools for Integrated Land Use-Transportation Planning in California

Research Product Type

Planning Tool

This set of planning tools comes from a project that studied land use, transportation planning, and smart growth/sustainable communities strategies in California.

Improving Transportation Information Resilience: Error Estimation for Networked Sensor Data

Research Product Type

Research Report

This project focuses on the problem of error detection and data recovery of partially malfunctioning sensors that could provide valuable information. The results of three network examples with different scales demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method in a large variety of scenarios. This research improves fundamental knowledge on transportation data analytics as well as the effective management of data and information infrastructure in transportation practice.