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January 8, 2024
Emily Winston, M.S. ’04, has turned a favorite childhood memory into a thriving enterprise that is giving the East Coast bagel scene a run for its money. Most people wouldn’t guess an engineer and transportation expert could build a better bagel, but Winston had the perfect recipe: a love of food and innovation.
UC Davis Magazine
January 5, 2024
This year’s lecture, “Shifting Gears: Reflections on the Role of Researchers in Shaping the Ideas that Shape Transportation,” will be given by Susan Handy, director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation and professor of environmental science and policy at the University of California, Davis.
National Academies
January 4, 2024
“A Trump EPA is not going to give these waivers,” said Dan Sperling, a former member of the California Air Resources Board who directs the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis.
Politico
January 4, 2024
UC Davis’s distinguished professor Dr Susan Handy will take the stage on the meeting’s second day. “I am honored and humbled to have been selected to present the Thomas B Deen Distinguished Lectureship,” says Handy.
Traffic Technology International
January 2, 2024
Crude carbon intensity, after rising from 2017 to 2020, has continued a steady decline. One likely explanation is that California is importing more lighter crudes from other countries as state production of heavier oil declines, said former CARB member and University of California, Davis’ Institute of Transportation Studies Director Dan Sperling.
Politico
December 30, 2023
“I don’t think there would be a mountain lion population on the San Francisco Peninsula if there wasn’t a source population somewhere else because they get killed so frequently,” said Fraser Shilling, director of the Road Ecology Center.
The Oakland Side
December 29, 2023
“This was the year that EVs went from experiments, or technological demonstrations, and became mature vehicles,” Gil Tal, the director of the Electric Vehicle Research Center at UC Davis, says.
The Atlantic
December 22, 2023
Daniel Sperling catches up with automobile designer and former ITS-Davis researcher Dan Sturges while discussings the world’s automobile monoculture.
Youtube
December 15, 2023
Giovanni Circella, director of the 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program at UC Davis, discusses the feasibility of a high-speed rail future in California.
Los Angeles Times
December 8, 2023
The gathering was held in response to the California Department of Transportation releasing the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the proposed project, which is now accepting comments from the community. Featured speaker, Dr. Susan Handy, is a professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at UC Davis and is the Director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation.
Davis Enterprise
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