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Ride hailing services such as Uber and Lyft are quickly changing transportation with growing impacts on travel demand, vehicle miles traveled, and the use of other modes. Dr. Circella will present results from a study of emerging transportation technologies and trends being developed at UC Davis in cooperation with Caltrans and the National Center for Sustainable Transportation. In the study, they investigate the factors affecting the adoption and frequency of use of emerging transportation services, including shared mobility services such as car-sharing and ride-hailing (Uber/Lyft), and discuss the impacts the the use of Uber/Lyft has on the use of other travel modes, including public transportation and driving alone, among different sociodemographic groups and geographic regions.
Speaker: Giovanni Circella, Director, 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program, University of California, Davis
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Sea level rise poses a real and significant threat to shoreline habitats and infrastructure. While there is broad recognition among federal, state, and local agencies that planning and investment decisions must recognize and adapt to sea level rise, there is currently no consistent and affordable method for measuring and recording shoreline change over large areas at a fine resolution. To address this gap, UC Davis is working with local and regional agencies in California’s Bay Area and coastal islands in Georgia to pilot the use of time-lapse, ground-based cameras that capture fine-resolution images and satellite imagery of changing shoreline conditions for storm events, seasons, and across multiple years.
Please join us for this upcoming webinar to learn more about the results and lessons learned from two study shorelines and hear about next steps for this work.
Speaker: Dr. Fraser Shilling, Co-Director of the Road Ecology Center, University of California Davis
Guest Respondent: Dr. Mark Risse, Director, Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant
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UC Davis 2017 Undergraduate Research Fellowship Awards
Congratulations to the NCST's seven undergraduate students who received fellowship awards to conduct research over the summer. Their projects ranged from environmentally responsible infrastructure and operations, multi-modal travel and sustainable land use, zero-emission vehicle and fuel technologies, and institutional change.
From left to right: Joseph Kaylor, Kathryn Canepa, Monica Gonzalez, Maia Moran, Blythe Nishi, Callum Watts (not pictured: Thomas Guo)
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UC Riverside 2017-2018 NCST Graduate Fellows
The Center for Environmental Research & Technology (CE-CERT) at UC Riverside has awarded two outstanding graduate students for their research in sustainable transportation:
Brandon Feenstra is currently involved in several research projects addressing applications for low-cost air quality sensors. These projects include measuring dust emissions from the fence-line of a waste transfer facility, looking at particulate matter trends at a community level, and community level monitoring and relating the surface particulate matter measurements to satellite aerosol optical depth (AOD) measurements.
Ayla Moretti is conducting both modeling and experimental research on how vehicle exhaust ages and produces secondary particulate matter, including secondary organic aerosols (SOAs), the results of which she plans to add to the EPA’s Motor Vehicle Emissions Simulator (MOVES). Ayla is currently working on setting up a MOVES matrix for the Riverside
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UC Davis 2017-2018 NCST Dissertation Grants Recipients
Rosaria (Aria) Berliner will investigate the adoption of different mobility service types, individual attitudes towards vehicle ownership, the relationship between shared mobility services and vehicle ownership, and develop policy to stimulate more sustainable shared mobility choices.
Yuan Chen’s project, “Alternative Vehicle Supply and Demand, and the Effects of Government Policy”, will use economic and econometric modeling to analyze alternative vehicle supply and demand and the effects of government policy on alternative vehicle supply and demand.
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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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