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November 7, 2023
Recent research from the University of California, Davis, reveals that these big cats actively avoid areas with artificial light, a behavior persisting even during daylight. Senior author Fraser Shilling, director of the UC Davis Road Ecology Center, emphasized the impact of artificial light.
Earth.com
November 6, 2023
“Well-lit streets, neighborhoods and commercial areas will reduce and fragment the areas available to mountain lions to move around,” said senior author Fraser Shilling, director of the UC Davis Road Ecology Center in the Institute of Transportation Studies.
UC Davis News
November 4, 2023
The charging network currently being built out across the US “is the backbone” for drivers ”to feel confident that they can use an electric vehicle to go long distances,” said Alan Jenn, assistant professor at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis.
Bloomberg
November 1, 2023
A 2018 study by the National Center for Sustainable Transportation found that instantaneous or in-vehicle feedback affects driver behavior and improves fuel economy on average of 6.6% and can result in even greater driving improvements when combined with other strategies, such as driver training or performance-based rewards.
New Hope Free Press
November 1, 2023
Over 3200 creatures belonging to 94 species were reported as roadkill in Alameda County between 2009 and 2022, according to Fraser Shilling, a research scientist and co-director of the Road Ecology Center at UC Davis.
Patch
October 31, 2023
Organizers will reschedule the I-80 Freeway Teach-In previously set for Nov. 8. The event was to have featured professor Susan Handy and a response panel of local transportation experts.
The Davis Enterprise
October 27, 2023
“There’s no question there’s going to be continuing steady reductions,” said Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute for Transportation Studies at UC Davis. “Whether they happen at the pace laid out by CARB will depend on how fast utilities move toward renewable energy and how fast we go to electric vehicles.”
Sacramento Bee
October 27, 2023
What is the solution? The public is invited to explore this question at a Davis Futures Forum talk and panel discussion put together with help of Cool Davis. The keynote speaker is Professor Susan Handy, the head of the National Center for Sustainable Development.
The Davis Enterprise
October 26, 2023
Susan Handy talks about the widening freeways, burgeoning bike lanes, and curiously counterintuitive thinking that drive her new book, Shifting Gears: Toward a New Way of Thinking about Transportation.
Sactown Magazine
October 26, 2023
Join the Davis Futures Forum and Yolo Mobility, Cool Davis working groups, as they host guest speaker Susan Handy, Director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation, who will offer her perspective on the current planning for I-80 traffic congestion and the Yolo Causeway.
Cool Davis
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