Transportation Technology and Policy Graduate Group Faculty

Gwen Arnold, Ph.D.

• Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Policy

• Energy policy and planning
• Use and interpretation of scientific knowledge/information in environmental policy decisions and processes

• gbarnold@ucdavis.edu
• http://www.gwenarnold.com
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Jesus Barajas, Ph.D.

• Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy

• Transportation Equity
• Why and how people travel
• Planning and policy based on differences in travel behavior and safety

• jmbarajas@ucdavis.edu
• http://www.jmbarajas.com/
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David S. Bunch, Ph.D.

• Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Management

• Consumer choice behavior
• Choice modeling
• New product development and introduction
• Travel behavior, vehicle choice and alternative fuel vehicles

• dsbunch@ucdavis.edu
• https://gsm.ucdavis.edu/faculty/david-s-bunch
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Chen-Nee Chuah, Ph.D.

• Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Networked Systems
• Smart Connected Vehicles & Infrastructure
• Applied Machine Learning

• https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/chuah/
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Giovanni Circella, Ph.D.

• Director, 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program

• Travel Behavior
• Personal Attitudes and Lifestyles
• Travel Demand Forecast
• Discrete Choice Modeling
• Emerging Trends in Transportation and Shared Mobility Services
• Mobility of Young Adults (Millennials)
• Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
• Impact of Information Communication Technology (ICT) on Transportation
• Land Use Modeling
• Smart Growth and Sustainable Transportation
• Land Use and Transportation Interaction
• Energy Consumption from Transportation and Land Use

• gcircella@ucdavis.edu
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Paul Anders Erickson, Ph.D.

• Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

• Electric and Hybrid Drive Vehicles
• Fuel Cell Vehicles and Power Systems
• Hydrogen Production and Utilization
• Internal Combustion Engines
• Solar Energy Utilization

• paerickson@ucdavis.edu
• http://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/erickson/
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Yueyue Fan, Ph.D.

• Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Transportation and renewable energy infrastructure system modeling and optimization
• Critical transportation and energy system protection
• Adaptive network routing and research allocation processes
• Stochastic and dynamic system modeling and computational methods

• yyfan@ucdavis.edu
• https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/fan/
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Beth Ferguson

• Assistant Professor, Design

• Bike share
• Solar charging for electric vehicles
• Public transportation
• Autonomous electric vehicle share systems
• Sustainable urban design
• Ecological materials
• Social entrepreneurship

• bferguson@ucdavis.edu
• https://bethferguson.faculty.ucdavis.edu
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Dillon Fitch-Polse, Ph.D.

• Co-Director, BicyclingPlus

• dtfitch@ucdavis.edu
• https://bicyclingplus.ucdavis.edu/
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Susan L. Handy, Ph.D.

• Director, National Center for Sustainable Transportation
• Co-Director, BicyclingPlus Research Collaborative
• Associate Director for Education, ITS-Davis
• Chair, TTP Graduate Group
• Professor, Environmental Science and Policy

• Relationships between transportation and land use
• The impact of land use on travel behavior
• Factors influencing bicycling as a mode of travel
• Strategies for reducing automobile dependence

• slhandy@ucdavis.edu
• http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/
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Scott Hardman, Ph.D.

• Associate Research Faculty & Assistant Director, Electric Vehicle Research Center

• Consumer Responses to Alternative Fuel Vehicles
• Travel Behavior
• Policy Analysis
• Global Alternative Fuel Vehicle Markets

• shardman@ucdavis.edu
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John Harvey, Ph.D.

• Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Principal Investigator, UC Pavement Research Center

• Pavement engineering, including materials, construction, design, management, life cycle cost and environmental life cycle assessment

• jtharvey@ucdavis.edu
• http://www.ucprc.ucdavis.edu
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Miguel Jaller, Ph.D.

• Co-director, Sustainable Freight Research Program
• Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering

• Industrial and transportation engineering
• Sustainable transportation systems
• Humanitarian logistics
• Supply chain management
• Operations research

• mjaller@ucdavis.edu
• https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/jaller/
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Alan Jenn, Ph.D.

• Assistant Professor

• Alternative fuel vehicle adoption
• Transitions to sustainable energy systems
• Quantitative policy analysis
• Big data statistical analysis

• ajenn@ucdavis.edu
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Alissa Kendall, Ph.D.

• Acting Director, ITS-Davis
• Ray B. Krone Endowed Professor of Environmental Engineering

• Life cycle modeling applied to transportation systems
• Energy systems
• Construction materials, and buildings, with the goal of developing sustainable systems

• amkendall@ucdavis.edu
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Yongsung Lee, Ph.D.

• Co-Director, 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program
• STEPS+ Affiliate

• Travel Behavior
• Information Communication Technology
• Shared Mobility
• Autonomous Vehicle
• Telework

• yshlee@ucdavis.edu
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Mark Lubell, Ph.D.

• Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy

• Human behavior
• Role of governance institutions in solving collective action problems and facilitating cooperation

• mnlubell@ucdavis.edu
• http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/lubell/
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Patricia L. Mokhtarian, Ph.D.

• Professor Emerita, Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Impact of telecommunications technology on travel behavior
• Land use and transportation interactions
• Attitudes toward travel
• Congestion-response behavior
• Travel time budgets
• Transportation/air quality impacts of transportation demand management measures

• patmokh@gatech.edu
• http://www.its.ucdavis.edu/research/telecommunications-and-travel-research
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Somayeh Nassiri, Ph.D.

• Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Pavement design
• Materials
• Repair
• Rehabilitation
• Management

• nassiri@ucdavis.edu
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Joan Ogden, Ph.D.

• Professor Emerita, Environmental Science and Policy

• Technical and economic assessment of new energy technologies
• Modeling hydrogen infrastructure development

• jmogden@ucdavis.edu
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Susie Pike Cayar, Ph.D.

• Director, Transit Research Center

• Travel Behavior
• Transportation Planning and Policy
• Sustainable Transportation
• Public Transit

• scpike@ucdavis.edu
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Tyler Scott, Ph.D.

• Assistant Professor, Environmental Science and Policy

• Regulation and policymaking
• Utility and infrastructure governance
• Food-energy-water nexus
• Collaborative governance

• tascott@ucdavis.edu
• https://desp.ucdavis.edu/people/tyler-scott
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Fraser Shilling, Ph.D.

• Academic Coordinator

• Transportation ecology, the interactions of transportation systems with ecosystems and human communities
• Indicators of ecosystem performance, and policy issues associated with water pollution
• Impact of sea level rise on integrated planning of shoreline ecosystems and transportation

• fmshilling@ucdavis.edu
• https://roadecology.ucdavis.edu/people/fraser-shilling
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Daniel Sperling, Ph.D.

• Founding Director, ITS-Davis
• Distinguished Blue Planet Prize Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science and Policy

• Transportation, energy, and climate policy
• "3 Revolutions" of automated, shared, and electric vehicles

• dsperling@ucdavis.edu
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Gil Tal, Ph.D.

• Director, STEPS+
• Director, EV Research Center
• Professor, Environmental Science and Policy

• Travel behavior, alternative fuel vehicles, travel demand modeling, transportation planning, environmental policy
• Non-motorized transportation
• Creation and use of data in transportation planning process

• gtal@ucdavis.edu
• http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gil-tal/5/943/428
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Jamey Volker, Ph.D.

• Professional Researcher
• NCST Affiliate

• Environmental Impact Analysis
• Transportation Impact Analysis
• Travel Behavior
• Induced Travel
• Parking
• Accessory Dwelling Units
• Residential Location Choice
• Land Use Regulation
• Environmental Law

• jvolker@ucdavis.edu
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Kari Edison Watkins, Ph.D.

• Co-Director, Transit Research Center
• Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering

• transit planning and operations
• real-time traveler information
• perceived and actual safety of cyclists and pedestrians
• design of multimodal streets
• natural experiments and innovative survey methods
• emerging travel behavior data sources

• kewatkins@ucdavis.edu
• https://cee.engineering.ucdavis.edu/people/kari-watkins
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Stephen Wheeler, Ph.D.

• Professor, Landscape Architecture Program, Department of Environmental Design

• Climate change planning for mitigation and adaptation
• Evolution of built landscapes in metropolitan regions
• Theory and practice of sustainable development

• smwheeler@ucdavis.edu
• https://humanecology.ucdavis.edu/stephen-wheeler
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Junshan (Joshua) Zhang, Ph.D.

• Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Edge intelligence
• Reinforcement learning and imitation learning for vehicle automation
• 5G and beyond for V2V and V2X based connected vehicles

• jazh@ucdavis.edu
• https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/jzhang/
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H. Michael Zhang, Ph.D.

• Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Transportation systems operations
• Traffic flow theory
• Traffic control
• Dynamic traffic assignment
• Intelligent transportation systems

• hmzhang@ucdavis.edu
• https://cee.engr.ucdavis.edu/directory/michael-zhang
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