sustainability

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 study models the active transportation and vehicular travel traveling modes in a multi-modal network problem taking into account TNC services, such as, e-hailing, e-pooling, and express pool. The objective is to analyze passengers' choices among active transportation, solo driving, and TNC services, considering various trade-offs related to health, monetary, time, and inconvenience costs, and their subsequent impacts on traffic network performance.

This dissertation provides an integrated examination of urban heat mitigation strategies and the effectiveness of electric vehicle (EV) purchase incentives, employing innovative methodologies across its four chapters to address pressing environmental and policy challenges.

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.

This policy brief summarizes findings from a project that created a tool to investigate the distribution of public health impacts resulting from the implementation of a regional transportation plan in the six-county Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) region.

The primary objective of this dissertation is to improve the current laboratory testing technologies and performance assessment approaches for characterizing the performance-related properties of asphalt mixes containing recycled materials and to improve understanding of how these properties affect the performance of asphalt pavements so that they can be designed and constructed better.

This report documents the successful capture and reuse of diesel exhaust soot particles as a conductive additive in lithium manganese oxide (LMO) and lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathodes in Li-ion batteries.

Researchers at UC Davis reviewed published studies to summarize the range of household- and community-level benefits that can be realized by reducing car dependence in California. This policy brief summarizes the findings of that work.