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November 28, 2023
The Davis Futures Forum and Cool Davis will organize a public pro-and-con discussion of the Caltrans’ widening project for the Interstate 80 causeway between Davis and Sacramento. The keynote speaker is UC Davis Professor Susan Handy, head of the National Center for Sustainable Development.
The Davis Enterprise
November 27, 2023
“Reversing the trend toward bigger and heavier vehicles is key to achieving more sustainable mobility,” said Dan Sperling, founding director of the Institute of Transportation Studies of the University of California, Davis. “This applies also for electric mobility, to make the market for EVs more equitable and inclusive – and to reduce the need for critical minerals and more electricity.”
electrek
November 24, 2023
Dan Sperling, founding director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, stresses that reversing the trend towards bigger and heavier vehicles is crucial for achieving sustainable mobility.
Motor Mouth
November 22, 2023
Dan Sperling, the founding director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, said: “Reversing the trend toward bigger and heavier vehicles is key to achieving more sustainable mobility. This applies also for electric mobility, to make the market for EVs more equitable and inclusive – and to reduce the need for critical minerals and more electricity.”
The Guardian
November 20, 2023
More than 2% of registered vehicles in Travis County are battery-powered cars or trucks. A 2% adoption rate might not sound like much, but it signals “a big change that happened recently,” said Gil Tal, a leading expert on electric vehicles who runs a research center on EVs at the University of California, Davis.
KUT News
November 16, 2023
Only roughly 2% of EV owners are Black, according to the National Center for Sustainable Transportation. The statistic is attributed to vehicle costs and a lack of charging stations in predominantly Black neighborhoods, often referred to as “charging deserts.”
One Detroit
November 15, 2023
UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies published a peer-reviewed study 2 years ago documenting that Caltrans district office’s traffic models overstate the ability of widening to reduce traffic congestion (the induced demand effect).
Davis Vanguard
November 13, 2023
Research from the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis argues that no, electric cars aren’d driven less than their fuel-burning counterparts. ITS UC Davis criticized other studies that are “based on early, short-range models of electric vehicles and early adopter households with older drivers, retirees, and multiple vehicles.
Road & Track
November 10, 2023
“Well-lit streets, neighborhoods and commercial areas will reduce and fragment the areas available to mountain lions to move around,” Fraser Shilling, senior author of the study and director of the UC Davis Road Ecology Center in the Institute of Transportation Studies, said in a statement.
EcoWatch
November 9, 2023
Dr. Alissa Kendall, professor of civil and environmental engineering, joins a panel of experts to discuss the current structure of the global supply chain and its vulnerabilities, what it would take to bring the lithium supply chain to California, and what steps could be taken to ensure that this new supply chain is environmentally sustainable and produces real economic opportunities for marginalized communities.
California Council on Science and Technology
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