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Congratulations to recent
NCST award winners,
Amy Lee and Dr. Jamey Volker!
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This past November, UC Davis PhD candidate, Amy Lee, was named the 2020 NCST Outstanding Student of the Year! Amy's research focuses on the relationships between transportation and land use, particularly the impacts of policy and politics on urban planning, transportation planning, and ultimately travel behavior and climate change. Congratulations, Amy! |
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Dr. Jamey Volker and Amy Lee were also the inaugural recipients of the newly instituted Mary Nichols Environmental Policy Award. Named in honor of California Air Resources Board Chair and longtime ITS-Davis supporter, Mary Nichols, the award is given to an outstanding paper on environmental policy in transportation by UC Davis students. The winning paper, co-authored with Professor Susan Handy, titled, “Induced Vehicle Travel in the Environmental Review Process,” examines how transportation planners often ignore, underestimate, or misestimate “induced travel” effects. |
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Student Spotlight: Danielle Dirksen
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This newsletter, we’re featuring a standout USC graduate: Danielle Dirksen! |
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Meet recent USC graduate, Danielle Dirksen, who earned her B.S. in Urban Studies and Planning this past December. Danielle is especially drawn to mobility justice, and she believes her time at USC’s Price School of Public Policy has trained her to be on the lookout for how planners and policymakers can work directly with the public to make transit more equitable. Danielle now interns with the Orange County Transportation Authority, working on Capital Projects Outreach. Her long-term goal is to become a jack-of-all-trades transit planner who is well versed in planning, GIS work, community outreach, marketing, and she hopes to dip her toes into the engineering side of things as well. Read more about Danielle and where her future might lead her.
Keep up the amazing work, Danielle!
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Congrats to NCST’s Fall 2020 Dissertation Grant Awardees
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Congratulations to our Georgia Tech and UC Davis dissertation grant recipients for the Fall 2020 cycle! Our recent awardees are contributing to research on transportation equity, land use policy, carpooling, ridehailing, and emissions impacts! |
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Jai Malik | UC Davis
(funded by the PSR UTC) |
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Hongyu Lu | Georgia Institute of Technology
Tian Xia | Georgia Institute of Technology
Ziyi Dai | Georgia Institute of Technology
Diyi Liu |Georgia Institute of Technology |
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3 Revolutions Policy Conference 2021
March 3 & 4, 2021 – Online
Mark your calendars for the 3 Revolutions Policy Conference 2021! The 3 Revolutions (which are shared mobility, electrification and automation) together are mapping a blueprint for a sustainable and equitable transportation future. For this year’s conference, the organizers will be turning their heads towards Washington, DC, to focus on the federal and state roles in shaping policy to steer the 3 Revolutions towards a better future. Each day of the conference will include several deep dive sessions showcasing leading voices in sustainable transportation.
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10th Annual International Portable Emission Measurement Systems Conference
March 11 & 12, 2021 – Online
The Portable Emission Measurement System (PEMS) annual conference gathers leaders and top researchers from industry, government and academia to discuss the application and significance of PEMS in emission and fuels research. The theme of this year’s conference is "From the Laboratory to the Real World: Understanding Community Impacts". Topics covered include the latest developments in compliant and non-compliant PEMS; the benefits of portable activity monitoring systems and prediction of in-use emissions; and new developments for on-road measurements from an international perspective.
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Congestion Reduction via Personalized Incentives
March 11, 12pm PDT — Online
Speakers:
Meisam Razaviyay | Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
Ali Ghafelebashi | Ph.D. Student, University of Southern California
This webinar will discuss an alternative approach of offering positive incentives to drivers to take alternative routes. The researchers propose an algorithm to reduce traffic congestion and improve routing efficiency via offering personalized incentives to drivers. They exploit the wide accessibility of smart communication devices to communicate with drivers and develop a look-ahead incentive offering mechanism using individuals’ routing and aggregate traffic information. |
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Matthew Barth |
Professor, University of California, Riverside
Nathan Mustafa (Guest Respondent) | Civil & Traffic Engineer, City of Riverside
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This webinar highlighted UC Riverside researchers’ efforts to develop an Innovation Corridor testbed for enabling research in shared mobility, vehicle electrification, and connected and automated transportation. Developed as part of the City of Riverside’s Smart-City initiative, this Innovation Corridor consists |
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of a six-mile section of University Avenue between the UC Riverside campus and downtown Riverside, and supports various transportation modes including passenger vehicles, trucks, transit, bicycles, and various forms of micro-mobility. |
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With many states observing limits on in-person shopping, what can we do as individuals to limit the environmental and societal impact of online shopping? And even beyond this moment, how do we minimize the harm—or maximize the benefit—of online shopping to society and life on our planet? A recent post from Professor |
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Miguel Jaller, Anmol Pahwa, and Seth Karten for the UC Davis Transportation and Climate Blog takes a look at what you can do to minimize the harmful environmental impacts of your online shopping habits. As Professor Jaller put it in a recent interview for UC Davis magazine, “Consumers need to acknowledge that just a click of their mouse has physical and environmental repercussions.” Jaller said in most cases, the faster we want our packages delivered, the more impact our orders have on the environment. |
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Highway expansions increase average travel speeds on highways, which in turn reduces the perceived “cost” of driving and thereby induces more driving. How accurately do environmental reviews estimate induced travel from highway expansions?
a. Very accurately
b. Moderately accurately
c. Inaccurately
d. Environmental reviews do not estimate induced travel from highway expansions |
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Sustainable Transportation Concepts:
New Mini-Lecture!
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The NCST has a new addition to its mini-lecture series aimed at supplementing college-level courses with sustainable transportation-related material. The series is intended for undergraduate and graduate level college students and covers a wide variety of sustainable transportation topics. |
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Gentrification and Displacement Near Los Angeles Rail Transit Stations
USC Price School of Public Policy Professor Marlon Boarnet discusses how L.A. rail transit and other systems contribute to residential displacement and gentrification. |
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Developing Markets for Zero Emission Vehicles in Short Haul Goods Movement
Genevieve Giuliano, Maged Dessouky, Sue Dexter, Jiawen Fang, and Shichun Hu | University of Southern California
Seiji Steimetz and Thomas O’Brien | California State University Long Beach
Marshall Miller and Lewis Fulton | University of California, Davis |
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In this report, potential for zero emission heavy duty trucks (ZEHDTs) is examined via simulation modeling, case studies, interviews and a survey. Impacts of ZEHDTs on freight operations are assessed, and costs and benefits of using diesel, natural gas hybrid and battery electric vehicles are compared for 2020, 2025, 2030. The report also presents recommendations for promoting and increasing the market share of ZEHDTs and hybrids.
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Instantaneous Hybridization Factor (IHF) Development for HEV Energy-Emissions Analyses Using Real-World, On-Board Data
Britt A. Holmén and Mitchell K. Robinson | University of Vermont
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Past research has shown on-road emissions patterns unique to hybrid electric vehicles, indicating the need to account for them in emissions models. This work is to outlines a framework for development of new hybrid electric vehicle emissions models based on current knowledge of conventional vehicle emissions.
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Targeted Investment for Food Access
David C. Novak, James L. Sullivan, and Meredith T. Niles | University of Vermont
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This project focused on modeling access to food locations by identifying the most critical roadway links in a transportation network. The researchers extended the Critical Closeness Accessibility (CCA) measure to identify the roadway infrastructure components that are most critical with respect to food accessibility. The modification of the CCA to address food accessibility can be used to support more targeted investment in transportation assets.
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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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