Turns out EVs don’t like the cold either
January 19, 2024
The other thing that happens to EVs when it’s really cold out is that they lose range, per Gil Tal at UC Davis.
Marketplace
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January 19, 2024
The other thing that happens to EVs when it’s really cold out is that they lose range, per Gil Tal at UC Davis.
Marketplace
January 15, 2024
“Initially, we were surprised that there was so much use of Uber and Lyft,” says Caroline Rodier, a researcher at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies. “But on the other hand, it makes sense, because there is pretty good transit service in that area.”
Next City
January 12, 2024
As Dr. Handy posited as her core premise at the lecture, “research will have little impact on what the transportation profession does if it does not also change how the profession thinks” an echo of the great insight that we cannot solve problems using the same thinking that created them.
Eno Center for Transportation
January 12, 2024
If we haven’t made driving less of a hellscape in 100 years, why should we expect AI to finally get it right? Susan Handy, a distinguished professor at UC Davis and director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation, doesn’t think we should.
Los Angeles Times
January 12, 2024
The issue is that while the high-speed rail program will need continuous and sustained funding to start operations, more funding isn’t guaranteed, said Giovanni Circella, director of the 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.
government technology
January 10, 2024
The public weighed in on California’s federal waiver request for its clean cars program. Some theorizing on automakers’ stance, from former CARB board member and director of UC Davis’ Institute of Transportation Studies Dan Sperling: “I’m pretty sure they are to some extent resigned and to some extent eager to have a market created. They desperately need more certainty as they invest tens of billions of dollars each.”
Politico
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
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