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Outstanding Student of the Year: Sarah Grajdura
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UC Davis Ph.D. candidate, Sarah Grajdura, was named the 2021 NCST Outstanding Student of the Year! Sarah's research focuses on wildfire evacuation modeling and social equity in natural disasters. Her research efforts include the development of the California Integrated Transportation Health Impact Model (ITHIM) for the California Air Resources Board and the investigation of policies related to the export of used vehicles to lower income countries for the World Bank. Sarah co-founded the the UC Davis Transportation Equity and Mobility Justice Working Group in 2019 and contributed to planning a University of California-wide class on transportation equity in 2020.
Congratulations, Sarah!
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Transportation technologies and new approaches to mobility are advancing so rapidly that it can be difficult for policy makers to frame incentives, regulations, and market signals to promote all three pillars of sustainability: equity, the environment, and the economy. This conference will address questions around how policy makers, the private sector, and others can work together to support transportation innovations in ways that promote sustainability and benefit all users of the transportation system — particularly in terms of public health, equity, and accessibility.
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Dr. Hilda Blanco | Professor Emeritus, Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington
Casey Kempenaar | Community Development Director for the City of Citrus Heights
Meghan Huber | Economic Development and Communications Manager for the City of Citrus Heights
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The current transformation in retail trends, as indicated by increased online shopping and closure of anchor stores and regional malls, presents an opportunity to redevelop failing malls to address California's housing crisis. This webinar presented findings from ten case studies of distressed malls in California to assess their potential for mixed-use development, including housing. The webinar also presented sustainability criteria by which to measure the benefits and costs of redevelopment. |
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UC Davis Transportation &
Climate Blog
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NCST researchers Drs. Angela Sanguinetti and Nina Amenta explain their research on how individuals make choices between flights when greenhouse gas emission information is provided prominently. The researchers created a demo flight search website called GreenFLY and asked people to choose between a few flights. They found that people were willing to pay more for a lower-emission flight. Their findings suggest that the newly released Google Flights feature displaying emissions information alongside most flight options can have a real impact on aviation emissions. |
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NCST researcher Dr. Lewis Fulton delves into the monetary and non-monetary factors that influence people’s travel decisions and shares cost estimates for several future travel modes, including private vehicle travel, solo ride-hailing, and pooled ride-hailing, for electric and gas-powered vehicle technologies. Dr. Fulton offers policy recommendations for improving transportation sustainability in a shared, automated, and electric future. |
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What percentage of local affordable housing needs can mall redevelopment provide?
a. 10%
b. 20%
c. 45%
d. 50% |
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Providing information on the availability of off-street parking reduces searching for parking and the associated vehicle travel and emissions by what percentage?
a. 35%
b. 40%
c. 50%
d. 65% |
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Recently Completed Research
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Elisa Barbour, Janet Jin, Emma Goldsmith, Salvador Grover, Jacqueline Martinez, Susan Handy | University of California, Davis |
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This report provides research findings from a project on patterns of local policymaking in California to support transit-oriented development (TOD), transit, and active transport. Through survey research and case studies, the project assessed motivations, perceived obstacles, and priorities for development near transit, in relation to patterns of local policy adoption, from the perspective of city planners in the state’s four largest regions: the San Francisco Bay, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Sacramento metropolitan areas. |
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Gil Tal and Wei Ji | University of California, Davis
Jae Hyun Lee | Kyungpook National University, South Korea |
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This project creates a toolkit that runs in ArcGIS and allows users to project where EV owners will live, work, and charge. There are three distinct modules: market analysis, workplace charging, and home charging presented in block group level. The researchers expect these results to be useful for electric distribution companies, businesses, developers, EV charging companies, and all levels of governments in their EV planning efforts.
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Davis Oswald, Peng Hao, Nigel Williams, and Matthew Barth | University of California, Riverside |
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As part of the City of Riverside’s Smart-City initiative, UC Riverside researchers have developed an Innovation Corridor testbed for enabling shared electric connected and automated transportation research. The Innovation Corridor consists of a six-mile |
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section of University Avenue between the UC Riverside campus and downtown Riverside. The goal of this Innovation Corridor is to serve as a key testbed in Southern California for CAV applications, such as connected eco-approach and departure, eco-transit operation, smart Intersection management, and other applications to improve safety, mobility and environmental sustainability. |
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Giovanni Circella, Xiatian Iogansen, Grant Matson, and Jai Malik | University of California, Davis
Ali Etezady | Georgia Institute of Technology |
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Emerging transportation services are largely transforming people’s travel and activity patterns. This study investigates the emerging transportation trends and how they transform travel-related decision-making in the population at large through the application of a unique longitudinal approach. As part of this project, a second wave of data collection in 2018 was built as a continuation of the research efforts that started with the collection of the 2015 |
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California Millennials Dataset. This report focuses on the differences in attitudes towards transportation and the environment among different generational groups, the adoption and use of shared mobility services, and their relationship with vehicle ownership, the interest in the adoption of alternative fuel vehicles, and the interest in the future adoption of connected and automated vehicles.
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USC researchers looked at case studies of ten distressed malls in California’s metropolitan areas to assess their potential for mixed-use development, including housing, and developed sustainability criteria by which to measure the benefits and costs of redevelopment. |
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The growing emphasis on climate adaptation has created a demand for transportation professionals with a new, interdisciplinary skillset. Researchers at the University of Vermont surveyed state agencies about training needs and opportunities and examined climate adaptation graduate and certificate programs at universities around the country to understand current climate adaptation workforce development needs. |
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State Highway Induced Frequency of Travel Calculator |
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The NCST Induced Travel Calculator served as the basis for a nationwide tool that was released in October by three non-profit organizations. Dr. Jamey Volker advised the |
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The National Center for Sustainable Transportation is a consortium of leading universities committed to advancing an environmentally sustainable transportation system through cutting-edge research, direct policy engagement, and education of our future leaders. Consortium members: University of California, Davis; University of California, Riverside; University of Southern California; California State University, Long Beach; Georgia Institute of Technology; and the University of Vermont. |
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