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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.


The Knowledge Brokers: Handy’s Deen Lecture Challenges Transportation Professionals to Reckon With the Power They Wield

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


Can AI help make our roads less congested and deadly? Don’t bet on it, researchers say

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


California’s High-Speed Rail Project Sees New Funding, Bidders

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


Newsom’s bruising budget day

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


Alum’s Bagel Business Is Booming

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


Transportation Research Board Convenes Annual Gathering of Government, Industry, and Research Professionals

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


The Trump clock is ticking on California’s waivers

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


EXCLUSIVE: Meet the TRB 2024 Award winners

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


California Climate 2024 edition

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


Orphaned puma cubs at the Oakland Zoo point to the need for wildlife crossings

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


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