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Big Wins for the Campus in the Grand Challenges’ Wicked Problems Focus Areas

June 24, 2024

On May 13, Climate Solutions celebrated a resounding success when the U.S. Department of Transportation awarded UC Davis a Climate Change and Transportation Center, to be led by Kari Watkins, professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Davis and affiliate of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies. The award, which will total up to $7.5M over three years, will make UC Davis the home base for the only national transportation center focused on climate change.

UC Davis News

Agencies seek to open $38 million wildlife underpass in Los Gatos

June 20, 2024

“Having an underpass or an overpass would allow for animals to safely cross through but it has to be linked to fencing,” said Fraser Shilling, the director of the Road Ecology Center at the University of California, Davis. “So if you have that combination of a crossing structure and fencing then we’re definitely going to help with wildlife crossing safely across the highway.”

NBC Bay Area

It’s one of California’s worst freeway bottlenecks. Will fixing it ruin the planet?

June 20, 2024

“These projects are being oversold to the public as a way to reduce congestion; they are not,” said Susan Handy, director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation at UC Davis. “A court decision is going to be very important.”

Los Angeles Times

Why roadkill is classified as a natural disaster by UC Davis researchers

June 19, 2024

Fraser Shilling, Director of the UC Davis Road Ecology Center, joins KCBS Radio’s Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart to discuss the center’s latest annual report on roadkill.

KCBS Radio

Report: Roadkill a ‘Preventable Natural Disaster’

June 18, 2024

“Anytime you get a reduction in roadkill, people think it’s a good thing,” said Fraser Shilling, director of the UC Davis Road Ecology Center, a program of the Institute of Transportation Studies.

UC Davis News

As EV sales growth slows, the industry faces bankruptcies and new challenges

June 18, 2024

The majority of U.S. drivers still drive gas cars, and the majority of them cite two main concerns: sticker price and range anxiety, said Gil Tal, a professor at the University of California, Davis

Marketplace

California drives toward an electric future

June 14, 2024

California first began to introduce regulation in the early 1990s, explained Alan Jenn, an assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and researcher at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.

TechXplore

IT’S A GAS Less than a third of Americans ‘likely’ to get an electric vehicle in the future as industry hit with charging setbacks

June 14, 2024

Gil Tal, the director of the EV Research Center at the University of California, Davis said every sale is costing companies thousands per car.

The U.S. Sun

Shifting Gears: Towards a New Way of Thinking About Transportation

June 5, 2024

Dr. Susan Handy investigates the ideas that have shaped the nation’s car-oriented transportation to help uncover what needs to change to get to a safer, more sustainable system

Streetsblog Cal

Mexico’s new president is a climate scientist. That could be a boon for California.

June 3, 2024

“It was a slow change when it comes to the environment and climate change,” said Gil Tal, who as director of University of California, Davis’ Electric Vehicle Research Center works with Mexican officials on heavy-duty fleet electrification, charger build out and second-hand EV trade. “We hope for a little bit more push for environmental goals.”

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