Our experts are frequently spotlighted in national/local news outlets and widely read blogs. The headlines and summaries below link to the original news articles and features.
June 2, 2017
“Anything’s possible if we are willing to incur the cost to get us there,” said UC Davis Economist James Bushnell who studies the state’s energy consumption and says a total reliance on renewables is feasible with new technologies. “Batteries would become a lot cheaper and raise their capacity so they store enough energy so they can take us through the nighttime.”
KOVR-TV CBS Sacramento
June 2, 2017
“China has been working very hard to try and replace the U.S. as the world leader in a number of areas,” said Yunshi Wang, director of the UC Davis China Center for Energy and Transportation. Trump’s abandonment of the Paris accord, Wang said, “is obviously a big opportunity from the Chinese perspective.”
Bloomberg News
June 1, 2017
“It’s really this pioneering spirit that has really not only advanced the cause in California but that others can learn from our work,” said Benjamin Finkelor of the Energy Efficiency Center at UC Davis, which is starting an energy graduate program for energy systems this fall.
KCRA-TV Sacramento
May 19, 2017
UC Davis academic researcher Lew Fulton, co-director of the ITS-Davis Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways program, talks about his report titled “Three Revolutions in Urban Transportation” and how shared mobility could make the future more sustainable.
Capital Public Radio – Insight
May 11, 2017
“When it comes to cars, what we learned early in life still holds true – sharing makes everything better,” says lead author Lewis Fulton, a co-director at the Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways program of the UC-Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.
Wards Auto
May 11, 2017
“Electric cars and automation are important, but they will not change much about how we move about our cities and could even make traffic congestion worse…With a major increase in ride sharing in both taxi-like vehicles and micro-transit, we could cut traffic by at least 50%. Electrification and sharing will also be critical for cutting CO2 emissions.”—Lew Fulton, co-director of the STEPS program at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.
RideShark.com
May 11, 2017
“It could take 30 or 40 years to phase in electric cars and reach this driverless car world where everything is clean and automated in a perfect symphony. But we have to figure out how to live for decades where you have many kinds of vehicles out there, unless we made some kind of decision as a society to accelerate the change.”—Lew Fulton, co-director of the STEPS program at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.
CityLab
May 5, 2017
Deb Niemeier, a civil infrastructure expert at the University of California Davis, praised S.B. 1 for
focusing more on alternative transportation, but said the legislation doesn’t go far enough. “Why not pay cities to take roads out of
service, and make them active transport[bicycling and walking paths] . . . or pay cities sufficient funds so they can run bigger transit services?”
Tax Analysts
May 4, 2017
“We have to stop thinking that self-driving cars will automatically be sustainable,” said Lew Fulton, co-director of the STEPS program at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies. “We need policies to make sure we steer this towards electric and efficient.”
Scientific American/ClimateWire
May 2, 2017
“As a woman who works in the transportation industry I was driven to bring together a group of other women and create a support system to help advance each other’s careers,” said Sarah Strand, a master’s student in the TTP graduate program hosted by ITS. “It’s really about fostering a culture of supporting women in an industry that’s historically been male-dominated.”
The Aggie
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