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November 17, 2017
“A future with driverless cars is inevitable because it will be cheap, safe and people will want it,” said ITS-Davis Director Dan Sperling. “We want to make sure, before we get too far, that these driverless cars are powered by electricity and used for pooling services, not individually owned.”
Washington Post/WP BrandStudio
November 17, 2017
“These rush deliveries are the ones breaking those benefits because now there is no time to consolidate, so there will be more trips for less cargo,” said Miguel Jaller, an assistant professor at UC Davis.
Vox.com
October 27, 2017
“If that comes true, I think maybe there will be less barriers to EVs coming this way and that way,” said Yunshi Wang, director of the UC Davis China Center for Energy and Transportation.
ClimateWire
October 20, 2017
“We need to rebuild our communities over time in such a way that people don’t have to drive so far to get what they need, or they have alternatives to driving,” said Dr. Susan Handy, a professor at the University of California at Davis and the director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation. “That’s how you manage congestion. You give people the possibility of spending less time in traffic.”
Houston Chronicle
October 17, 2017
“There’s this potential opportunity for policy makers, city planners and these firms themselves to find solutions where we’re steering toward that future,” said Regina Clewlow, an author of the research report from the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.
New York Times
September 27, 2017
“From consumer perspective, they don’t think too much about the life cycle impact of producing that electric vehicle,” says Alissa Kendall, professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Davis and a former auto engineer at Ford. “I do think the consumer cares about the life of the battery.”
Wired
September 25, 2017
“If we expand the freeway, we’re making it easier for people to travel…and carrying more cars through that stretch of roadway. That can be a good thing — but you’re not solving the congestion problem.” –UC Davis Professor Susan Handy, director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation.
ABC-TV 10 Sacramento
September 21, 2017
“At the end of the day we are moving towards a system that is electric drive,” University of California, Davis Institute of Transportation Studies director Dan Sperling said. “It is just a question of how fast we get there.”
Argus Media
September 21, 2017
“The transition to shared, electric and automated vehicles could evolve in very different directions. The effects of driverless cars on traffic congestion and sprawl could be very positive or very negative.”—Professor Dan Sperling, director of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.
Western City Magazine
August 29, 2017
Around a fifth of total greenhouse gas emissions worldwide come from transportation alone, “but close to 30 percent in most industrialized countries,” according to Nic Lutsey of The International Council on Clean Transportation and Dan Sperling of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation.
Alternet
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