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Environmental Impact Assessment of End-of-Life Strategies for Flexible Pavements and Development of a Decision Making Tool for Managing Local Roads

Principal Investigator Arash Saboori
University of California, Davis

This research aims to quantify environmental impacts of transportation, with special focus on local roads maintenance and improvement.

Project Status

Complete

Evaluating Sustainability Impacts of Intelligent Carpooling System among Single Occupancy Vehicle Commuters

Principal Investigator Angshuman Guin, Ph.D.
Georgia Institute of Technology

The purpose of this study is to develop an analytical framework for assignment of individual vehicular trips into viable carpooling pairs under a constrained set of reasonable restrictions, such as temporal and spatial bounds/limits and user preferences.

Project Status

Complete

Evaluating the Need for Policy Interventions: Will On-Demand Ridesharing Services Enhance Sustainability and Mobility?

Principal Investigator Daniel Sperling, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis

This project examines various stakeholder interests to evaluate whether on-demand ride-hailing will help or will undermine sustainable transportation systems.

Project Status

Complete

Evaluating the Sustainability Impacts of Intelligent Carpooling Systems for SOV Commuters in the Atlanta Region

Research Product Type

Research Report

Community-based carpooling has the potential to alleviate traffic congestion and reduce the transportation carbon footprint. One of the major barriers to implementation is the difficulty of optimizing carpool formation in large systems. This study utilizes two different methods to solve the carpooling optimization problem: 1) bipartite algorithm and 2) integer linear programming.

Evaluating the Viability of Dimethyl Carbonate as an Alternative Fuel for the Transportation Sector

Principal Investigator Thomas Durbin, Ph.D.
University of California, Riverside

This study conducted a preliminary evaluation of the viability of dimethyl carbonate (DMC) as a transportation fuel for fleet and wider applications.

Project Status

Complete

Examining e-Bike Rebates in California

Principal Investigator Dillon Fitch-Polse, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis

Given the increase in demand and incentives for e-bicycling; this project seeks to evaluate the behavioral effects (change in bicycling, driving, use of transit) of these incentives to help guide future policy interventions for e-bicycling. The researchers will examine these changes based on survey data, and will propose future study designs for more in-depth analyses and evaluations of e-bike incentives.

Project Status

Complete

Examining the Safety, Mobility and Environmental Sustainability Co-Benefits and Tradeoffs of Intelligent Transportation Systems

Principal Investigator Matthew Barth, Ph.D.
University of California, Riverside

This project focuses on safety, mobility, and environmental sustainability Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs) of Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) applications.

Project Status

Complete

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
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