Seminar Archive
Comparing urban air quality impacts of hydrogen and gasoline pathways: a Sacramento case study
Mr. Guihua Wang; Mr. Chris Congleton, ITS-Davis Graduate Researcher, PhD Candidate in Civil Engineering, Exit Seminar;ITS-Davis Graduate Researcher
Local Government Strategies: When Platinum Isn’t Enough
Tara Goddard, Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator for the City of Davis
Advances in Research on Active Living
Dr. Kristen Day, Professor, Department of Planning, Policy, and Design, University of California, Irvine
Next Generation Personal Rapid Transit as Physical Internet
Mr. Christopher Perkins; Mr. John Cole, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Unimodal Systems; Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Unimodal Systems
Sustainable Streets: Emerging Priorities and Practices
Ellen Greenberg, AICP, STC Visiting Practitioner
Dr. Genevieve Giuliano, STC Distinguished Speaker, Sr. Assoc. Dean, Research and Technology, Director, METRANS Transportation Center, School of Policy, Planning and Development, USC
The feasibility of Bayesian imputation of non-chosen attribute values in revealed preference surveys
Dr. Simon Washington, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University
Markets and Bazaars: Carbon Trading in the New World
Dr. Yoram Shiftan, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Director, John Muir Institute of the Environment (JMIE), Director,UC Davis-Caltrans Air Quality Project
Markets and Bazaars: Carbon Trading in the New World
Dr. Deb Niemeier, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Director, John Muir Institute of the Environment (JMIE), Director,UC Davis-Caltrans Air Quality Project
Traffic Congestion and its Impacts on Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Can ITS Help?
Dr. Matthew Barth, Director, College of Engineering - Center for Environmental Research and Technology, Professor, Electrical Engineering, UC Riverside
Linking Transportation, Development and Habitat Conservation: A Case Study of Riverside County
Dr. Martin Wachs, STC Distinguished Speaker, Director, Transportation, Space, and Technology, RAND Corporation
Where do people bicycle? The role of infrastructure in determining bicycling behavior
Dr. Jennifer Dill, Associate Professor, Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning (USP), Director, Center for Transportation Studies, Assistant Director, Center for Urban Studies, Portland State University
Implementing Renewable Energy in the Galapagos Islands
Mr. Kurt Kornbluth, ITS-Davis Graduate Student
Modeling the Introduction of Alternative Vehicle Technologies
Dr. Joan Ogden, Professor, Environmental Science and Policy, Associate Energy Policy Analyst, ITS Davis, STEPS Program
"Estimating time-dependent freeway O-D demands with different data coverage: a sensitivity analysis"; "Improving Car Scrappage Programs and Transportation Emissions Models with Vehicle Registration Data and GIS"
Zhen (Sean) Qian; Peng Wu, ITS-Davis Graduate Researcher; ITS-Davis Graduate Researcher, PhD Candidate in Civil Engineering, Exit Seminar
Planning for Demographic Diversity: The Case of Immigrants and Transportation in California
Dr. Evelyn Blumenberg, Associate Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Urban Planning, UCLA School of Public Affairs
Life Cycle Modeling for Sustainable Transportation
Dr. Alissa Kendall, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
The High and Low of Travel: Stochastic Modeling of Travel Time Expenditure Frontiers in a Global Context
Dr. Ram M. Pendyala, Professor, Transportation Systems, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Arizona State University
Sacred Cars? Optimal Regulation of Stationary and Non-stationary pollution Sources
Dr. Catherine Wolffram, Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and a Researcher at the UC Energy Institute
Prioritizing Climate Change Mitigation Actions by Their Cost-Effectiveness
Mr. Nicholas Lutsey, ITS-Davis Graduate Researcher
Technical Writing Tips and Traps
Dr. Pat Mokhtarian, Chair and Graduate Advisor, Transportation Technology and Policy and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis
Results from the 2008-09 UC Davis Campus Travel Survey
Kristin Lovejoy, ITS-Davis graduate Researcher
Impact of Transportation Infrastructure on the Value of Time
James Barrett, ITS-Davis Graduate Researcher
Vulnerabilities and Synergies of Supply Chain Networks in a Global Economy: What We Can Learn from Half a Century of Advances in Transportation
Dr. Anna Nagurney, John F. Smith Memorial Professor, Director, Virtual Center for Supernetworks and Supernetworks Laboratory for Computation and Visualization, Department of Finance and Operations Management, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts
The Aging of Society as a Woman's Issue; If You're Not Part of the Solution You're Part of the Problem
Dr. Sandra Rosenbloom, STC Distinguished Speaker, Professor of Planning, Adjunct Professor of Natural Renewable Resources, Adjunct Professor of Gerontology, and Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Arizona
(1) $2 Daily Workplace Parking Charge + $4 Cashout and (2) Instant Ridesharing: Hope Amidst 15 Failed Pilots
Steve Raney, Principal Consultant, ATS ULTra Personal Rapid Transit. Executive Director, Cities21
Bike Planning in Bike City, USA: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Trying Really Hard, Actually
Ms. Tara Goddard, City of Davis Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator
State and Local Climate Change Planning in the U.S.: Implications for Transportation
Dr. Stephen M. Wheeler, Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture Program, Department of Environmental Design, UC Davis
What Happens When the Freeway is Closed for Repairs? Early Results from Fix I5 Project
Dr. Michael Zhang, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis
Computing Challenges of the Static Traffic Assignment Problem: Past, Present and Future
Dr. David Boyce
Integrated Land Use and Transportation Modeling in Metropolitan Areas of Southern Europe: the Model MARS-Bari
Dr. Giovanni Circella
“Explaining Gender Difference in Bicycling Behavior”;“Factors Associated with Proportions and Miles of Bicycle Rides for Transportation and Recreation in 6 Small US Cities”;"Micromechanical Investigation of Foamed Asphalt Mix Behavior: on the Curing Mechanism and the Effects of Mixing Moisture Content";"Pareto-Improving Ramp Metering Strategies for Reducing Congestion in the Morning Commute";"Carsharing and the Built Environment: A GIS-based Study of One U.S. Operator";"The Impact of Product Type and Other Variables on Store and Internet Purchase Intentions: Clothing versus Books"
Catherine Emond;Yan Xing;Pengcheng Fu;Tai Stillwater;Wei Tang, ITS-Davis Graduate Researcher;ITS-Davis Graduate Researcher;ITS-Davis Graduate Researcher;ITS-Davis Graduate Researcher;ITS-Davis Graduate Researcher;
Overestimations in Forecasting New Transportation Demand Management Policies: Chronicle of an Error Foretold
Dr. Gil Tal, Post-doctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley
Some Macroscopic Laws of Urban Traffic Dynamics: Analysis, Physical Evidence and Control Applications
Dr. Carlos F. Daganzo, STC Distinguished Speaker, Director, Center for Future Urban Transportation, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
The U.S. Low-Carbon Fuel Legislation as Global Warming Solution
Dr. Sonia Yeh, ITS-Davis Research Scientist
Eleven Essential Technologies for Meeting our Climate and Energy Security Goals
Dr. David Greene, Corporate Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Collective Action and Citizen Environmental Behavior
Dr. Mark Lubell, Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Policy, UC Davis
Technical Writing Tips and Traps
Dr. Pat Mokhtarian, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chair of the Graduate Group, and Associate Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis
An Overview of Bus Rapid Transit in the US and the World
Dr.G. Scott Rutherford, Professor, Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Director, Director, Engineering Professional Programs, UW Professional and Continuing Education, Director, Valle Scholarship & Scandinavian Exch Program
A New Direction for the Zero Emission Vehicle Regulation
Joshua M. Cunningham, Air Resources Engineer, Mobile Source Control Division, California Air Resources Board
Do Transit Investments Increase Agglomeration Economies?
Dr. Daniel G. Chatman, Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
Multistage Energy System Planning under Uncertainties;Optimal Design of Biofuel Production System and Resource Allocation: A California Case Study
Yongxi (Eric) Huang;Chien-Wei Chen, ITS-Davis Graduate Researcher;ITS-Davis Graduate Researcher
Modeling Locomotive Emissions: Creating a New Spatially Resolved Model and Evaluating the Effectiveness of California's Trade Corridors Improvement Fund (TCIF)
Gregory Gould, ITS-Davis Graduate Researcher
Mobility, Place-making, and Economic Competitiveness
Dr.Robert Cervero, STC Distinguished Speaker, Professor of City & Regional Planning; Director, University of California Transportation Center; Director, Institute of Urban & Regional Development
Overcoming Barriers to Cycling in Low-Income and Minority Communities
Dr. Lynn Weigand, Director of the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation, Center for Transportation Studies, College of Urban and Public Affairs, Portland State University
What Happens to Commuting When it is Disrupted by a Major Freeway Reconstruction Project? Insights from Fix I-5
Dr. Pat Mokhtarian, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chair of the Graduate Group, and Associate Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis
Reducing Transportation Emissions in the Developing World:
Adam Millard-Ball, Ph.D. Candidate, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford University
Next Generation of Adaptive Traffic Signal Control
Dr. Pitu Mirchandani, STC Distinguished Speaker, Professor of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering and Director of the ATLAS Laboratory at Arizona State University
Modeling Multimodal Morning Commute in a One-to-one Corridor Network
Zhen (Sean) Qian, ITS-Davis Graduate Researcher, UC Davis
Greenhouse Gas emissions reduction potential and associated costs from transportation and land use strategies for 50 states
Dr. Lewison Lem, MPA, Principal Consultant, Transportation Energy and Climate Change Practice Leader, Jack Faucett Associates
Assessing Vehicle Electricity Demand Impacts on California Electricity Supply
Dr. Ryan McCarthy, Science and Technology Fellow at California Council on Science and Technology
Driving and the Built Environment: The Effects of Compact Development on Motorized Travel, Energy Use, and CO2 Emissions, An overview of Transportation Research Board Special Report 298, presented by Patricia L. Mokhtarian (member of the study committee)
Dr. Pat Mokhtarian, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chair of the Graduate Group, and Associate Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis
Multistage system planning for bioethanol production and distribution in California
Yongxi (Eric) Huang, ITS-Davis Graduate Researcher, UC Davis
Changing the Game in the U.S. Auto Sector: The Role of the Plug-In Vehicle Network
Shannon Arvizu, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University
Can biofuel production in the United States meet the promises of policy makers?
Nathan Parker, ITS-Davis Graduate Researcher
Trip-Generation Rates Spreadsheet for Smart-Growth Land Use Projects in California: the Need and the Context
Dr. Richard Lee, ITS-Davis Visiting Practitioner and Associate, Fehr & Peers
Reductions Goals in the Transportation Sector, Christopher Yang
Dr. Christopher Yang, ITS-Davis Researcher - Project Engineer
Do Consumers and Firms Care about Gasoline Prices?
Dr. Christopher Knittel, Associate Professor of Economics, Chancellor's Fellow, UC Davis
Bicycling in the Netherlands and Europe, policies and practices. What can America learn from them?
Dr. Eva Heinen;Jason Moore, Visiting Scholar, Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands;ITS-Davis Graduate Researcher and Fulbright Scholar
Technical Writing Tips and Traps
Dr. Pat Mokhtarian, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chair of the Graduate Group, and Associate Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis
Fuel Economy or Fools Economy: An International Overview
Dr. Lee Schipper, STC Distinguished Speaker, Senior Research Engineer, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center, Stanford University
Planning for California's Transportation Future
Martin Tuttle, Caltrans, Deputy Director, Planning and Modal Programs
People Do Walk In Suburbia and They Want to Walk More
Dr. Marc Schlossberg;Mr. Nico Larco, Associate Professor of Planning, Public Policy & Management at the University of Oregon; Associate Director of the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC), and Co-Director of the Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI);Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon and is a Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Sustainable Cities
Dynamic Eco-Driving: the Potential to Improve Fuel Economy and Reduce Emissions
Dr. Matthew J. Barth, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Yeager Family Chair, Director, College of Engineering Center for Environmental Research and Technology, Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering, University of California-Riverside
The California Statewide Travel Demand Model (CSTDM): A practical tool for transportation analysis
Dr. Doug Hunt, Al Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calgaryberta, Canada
How Do People Choose a Travel Mode? Factors Associated with Routine Walking & Bicycling
Robert J. Schneider, Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley Department of City and Regional Planning UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research & Education Center (SafeTREC)
Complete Streets and Parallel Universes – Getting Around European Cities for a Low Carbon Future
Steve Tracy, Senior Research Analyst with the Local Government Commission
Barriers and Opportunities to Public Transit Success: Perspectives on Ridership in an Era of Uncertain Revenues and Climate Change
Dr. Gil Tal, Post-Doctoral Researcher, UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies
Identifying Customer Segments for Children’s School Travel: An Application of Stated Preference Methods
Dr. Noreen McDonald, Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A Bridge between Travel Demand Modeling and Activity-Based Travel Analysis
Dr. Will Recker, STC Distinguished Speaker, Professor of Civil Engineering, UC Irvine
Designing, Simulating and Visualizing Sustainable Communities
Dr. Paul Waddell, Professor, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley
Green Mobility: Ten Easy Steps to Ease Congestion, Earn Money, and Solve Global Climate Change
Dr. Jeffrey Tumlin, Principal, Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates
Contributions of the Physical and Social Environment to Bicycling: A Structural Equation Modeling Study
Yan Xing;Joel Bremson, Graduate Student Researcher, UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies; Graduate Student Researcher, UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies
Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle GHG Impacts in California: Integrating Consumer Research with an Electricity Supply Model
Dr. Jonn Axsen, Post Doctoral Researcher, ITS- Davis, UC Davis
Dr. David Banister, Professor of Transport Studies, Transport Studies Unit, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
David Gaker; Yanding Zheng; Dr. Joan Walker, UC Berkeley, co-authors of the winning paper of the TRB Kitamura award
Dr. Joan Ogden, Professor, Environmental Science and Policy, Energy Policy Analyst, ITS-Davis, Co-Director, Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways Program, UC Davis
Dr. Andreas Schäfer, Visiting Professor, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center at Stanford University; Lecturer, Director of the Martin Centre and University, University of Cambridge, UK
Forecasting Adoption of Ultra-Low-Emission Vehicles Using the GHK Simulator and Bayes Estimates of a Multinomial Probit Model
Dr. Ricardo A. Daziano, PhD Economics, Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
A Kinematic Wave Theory of Multi-commodity Network Traffic Flow
Dr. Wenlong Jin, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Irvine
Quantifying Active Transportation Impacts in Transportation Planning and Policy
Mr. Sean Co, Active Transportation Planner, Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Ready for Takeoff? The Race to Develop a Global Framework on Aviation GHGs
Dr. Dan Rutherford, Senior Researcher and Aviation Lead, International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT)
Planning Constrained Destination Choice in the ADAPTS Activity-Based Model
Dr. Joshua A. Auld, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Urban Transportation Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Winner of the 2011 TRB Kitamura Paper Award
Paying for the Roads, Buses, and Bike Paths of the Future: A Framework for Evaluating Transportation Tax and Fee Options and Assessment of Some New (and Old) Options
Dr. Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Director, MTI National Transportation Finance Center, San Jose State University
Transport Emissions, Time Use Patterns and Residential Location Choice - who is more exposed and why
Dr. Philine Gaffron, Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG), Project 'Urban Transport and Environmental Justice', Visiting Researcher, ITS-Davis
Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Assessment - Applications to the Passenger Transportation Sector
Dr. Alissa Kendall, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis
"Safe and Normal: Social Influences on Formation of Attitudes toward Bicycling"; "Autopia: A Serious Game about Long-range Alternative Fuel and Vehicle Transitions"
Elizabeth Gordon; Joel Bremson, Graduate Student, Transportation Technology and Policy; Graduate Student, Transportation Technology and Policy
Consumer Response to Stricter Fuel Economy Standards
Dr. David Brownstone, STC Distinguished Speaker, Professor of Economics, UC Irvine
The tragic tale of congestion pricing in Manhattan
Dr. Rohit T. Aggarwala, Special Advisor to Chairman Michael R. Bloomberg of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
Embedded Sensing of Transportation Networks
Dr. Ram Rajagopal, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
Transit Oriented Development: A Part of the Green Solution
Ms. Meea Kang, President and Co-Founder, Domus Development, LLC
Air Quality and Climate in California
Dr. Michael J. Kleeman, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis
Electricity as a Low Carbon Transportation Fuel
Dr. Chris Yang, Project Scientist, University of California, Davis
Technical Writing Tips and Traps
Dr. Pat Mokhtarian, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chair of the Transportation Technology and Policy Graduate Group, and Associate Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis
How will land use policies affect travel? The importance of residential sorting
Dr. Xinyu (Jason) Cao, Assistant Professor at Urban and Regional Planning program at Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota
Build It? Why and Where? Intentions, Attitudes and Preferences About Cycling in the Greek Context
Dr. Dimitris Milakis, Marie Curie Research Fellow, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, UC Berkeley
Implications of Market-mediated Emissions and Uncertainty for Biofuel Policies
Dr. Richard Plevin, Research Scientist, NextSTEPS (Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways) Program, UC Davis
Transportation Intersections Between Science, Policy and Politics
Dr. Robert Bertini, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Portland State University
Air Pollution Exposure and Physical Activity in Transportation Corridors
Dr. Douglas Houston, Assistant Professor, Department of Planning, Policy, and Design, UC Irvine
The Influence of Residential Dissonance on Travel Behavior
Jonas De Vos, PhD student, Geography Department, Ghent University | Visiting Scholar, ITS-Davis
Technical Writing Tips and Traps
Dr. Pat Mokhtarian, Associate Director for Education, ITS-Davis and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis
Planes, Trains, and Emissions: A Study of Aviation and High-Speed Rail Demand and Their Climate Impacts
Dr. Regina Clewlow, Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD), UC Berkeley and Research Affiliate, Engineering Systems Division (ESD), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Placing Transportation, an Urban Metabolism View of Land Use and Transportation
Dr. Stephanie Pincetl, Adjunct Professor, Director Center for Sustainable Communities, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
What’s Youth Got To Do With It? Exploring the Travel Behavior of Teens and Young Adults
Dr. Brian D. Taylor, FAICP, Professor of Urban Planning. Director, Ralph & Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Integrating Walkability Into Planning Practice -- winner of the 2012 TRB Ryuichi Kitamura Paper Award, for best student/mentor paper
Dr. Matthias N. Sweet, Instructor, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
California Smart Growth Trip Generation Rates Study
Dr. Kevan Shafizadeh, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, California State University, Sacramento
Reducing Transportation Emissions: What Has Worked, and Application to the Future
Mr. Tom Cackette, Former Chief Deputy Executive Officer, California Air Resources Board
Heterogeneity among Motorists in Traffic Congested Areas in Southern California
Dr. Jennifer Lee, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
Global Transport/Energy Futures: Can We Get Where We Need to Go?
Lewis M. Fulton, Ph.D., Co-Director, NextSTEPS, ITS-Davis
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1:30 - 2:00 Eric Cahill| 2:00 - 2:20 Alvaro Rodriguez| 2:20 - 2:40 Zhi Dong| 2:40 - 3:00 Poster Session, Graduate Student, Transportation Technology and Policy |Graduate Student, Transportation Technology and Policy | Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Transportation Studies, Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tongji University
Green Infrastructure: The Effects of Urban Rail Transit on Air Quality
Dr. Yihsu Chen, Associate Professor, joint appointment in the School of Engineering and School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at the University of California, Merced.
Biofuels That Cause Land-Use Change May Have Much Larger Non-GHG Air Quality Emissions than Fossil Fuels
Dr. Elliot Campbell, Assistant Professor, UC Merced
Enhancement of Community Sustainability and Livability: The Potential Role of Cool and Permeable Pavement Strategy
Hui Li, Researcher, University of California Pavement Research Center (UCPRC), UC Davis
Unregulated Tailpipe Emissions from A Light-Duty Hybrid-Electric Vehicle Operating Under Real-World Grade
Dr. Britt A. Holmén, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, University of Vermont
Engineering for Walking and Bicycling: How is it Changing? How is Davis involved?
Rock Miller, Principal for Stantec Consulting
Flash in the Pan: Transportation and the 2010 Buzz Word “Livability”
Dr. Lisa Aultman-Hall, Professor, School of Engineering and Transportation Research Center, University of Vermont
Transportation Planning and Regional Equity: History, Policy, and Practice
Alex Karner, Postdoctoral researcher, UC Davis Center for Regional Change
Special seminar -- The Challenges of Germany's Energiewende (Note to students -- This special seminar does not count toward the six mandatory seminars for the TTP 281 course.)
Kathrin Goldammer, Project Leader, Transdisciplinary Panel on Energy Change Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)
SPECIAL SEMINAR - Engaging Drivers: Who Jams Up the Roads, and What to Do About It
Paul Minett, Managing Director, Trip Convergence, New Zealand
Encouraging Sustainable Transportation Behavior: Alternatives to Driving, Alternatives to Parking
Dr. William (Billy) Riggs, AICP, LEED AP, Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, California Polytechnic State University
Biofuel's Carbon Balance: Rethinking the Foundations of Climate Policy for Transportation Fuels
Dr. John M. DeCicco, Professor of Practice, School of Natural Resources and Environment and Research Professor, University of Michigan Energy Institute
Exploring Lower Carbon Futures for the Automobile in the USA with ATEAM
Dr. Max Henrion, Chief Executive Officer, Lumina Decision Systems, Inc, Los Gatos
Assessing the U.S. Hydraulic Fracturing Boom: Overview, Challenges and Opportunities, and the Transportation Research Agenda
Gwen Arnold, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis
Can You Spare a Dime? Advances in Transportation Pricing Technologies and Policies
David Dick, Senior Payment Systems Manager, CH2M HILL
Thoughts on Future Directions for Pavement in Modern Transportation Systems
John Harvey, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Chair, Transportation Technology and Policy Graduate Group; Principal Investigator, UC Pavement Research Center, University of California, Davis
Impact of Streamlined Chassis Movements on Port Terminal Capacity
Dr. Tom O’Brien, Director of Research, Center for International Trade and Transportation; Associate Director, METRANS Transportation Center; California State University, Long Beach
The Future of Transportation Finance
Martin Wachs, Professor Emeritus, Civil & Environmental Engineering and City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley; Director, Transportation, Space, & Technology Program, RAND Corporation.
Understanding Household Preferences for Alternative Fuel Vehicle Technologies
Hilary Nixon, Associate Professor, Associate Chair and Graduate Adviser, Department of Urban & Regional Planning, San Jose State University
The Economics of Walking and Bicycling Facilities: Why We Need to Spend More Now
John Lieswyn, Associate, Alta Planning + Design
One Size Does Not Fit All: The Challenges of and Capabilities Needed for Sustainable Innovation
Andy Hargadon, Professor, Technology Management, Charles J. Soderquist Chair in Entrepreneurship, Graduate School of Management, UC Davis
Evolving Transportation Networks
David M. Levinson, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Richard P. Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation Engineering, University of Minnesota
Robocar/taxi: Utopia or Dystopia?
Steve Raney, Principal, CITIES21, a smart mobility consultancy, Palo Alto, CA
Development of Hybrid Choice Model to Investigate Effects of Teenagers’ Attitudes Toward Walking and Cycling on Mode Choice Behavior -- Winner of the 2013 TRB Ryuichi Kitamura Paper Award
Maria Kamargianni, PhD Candidate, Travel Demand Modeler, University of the Aegean, co-author of the winning paper of the TRB Kitamura award
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| Poster Session: | Rosaria Berliner, Grad Student, CEE, "The complex web of senior mobility"| |Christina Iliopoulou, Grad Student, CEE, "Route planning for seaplane services: the case of the Greek islands" | |Yu Pei, Grad Student, TTP, “Projecting spatial E85 demand for 2015 and 2020” | |Matthew Palm, Grad Student, TTP, “TBD" | |Natalie Popovich, Grad Student, TTP, "Bicyclists as Consumers: Mode Choice and Spending Behavior in Downtown Davis, CA"| | Podium Presentations: |1:40 to 2:00 pm: Susie Pike, Grad Student, TTP, "Travel mode choice and social reference group; A comparison of two formulations" | |2:00 to 2:20 pm: Yuan He, Grad Student, CEE, “Effects of specimen preparation variables and testing temperature on AMPT repeated load triaxial test for HMA” | |2:20 to 2:40pm: Kevin Fang, Grad Student, TTP, "Skateboarding down the street: Potential factors influencing the decision to skateboard as an active travel mode – an initial exploration"
The Tea Party, Property Rights, and Mega Planning in a Digital Era
Dr. Karen Trapenberg Frick, Assistant Director of the University of California Transportation Center/ Lecturer, Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley
Electric-Drive-Vehicle Research at the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation
Dr. Brett Williams, Electric Vehicles & Alternative Fuels Program Director, UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation / Assistant Adjunct Professor of Public Policy
Launching an Automated Active Transportation Data Collection System in San Diego, CA
Dr. Sherry Ryan, Professor, School of Public Affairs - Graduate Program in City Planning, San Diego State University
Autonomous Vehicles: Anticipating Impacts in a World of Increasingly Shared Mobility
Dr. Kara Kockelman, Professor & William J. Murray Jr. Fellow, Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Truth in Data. Use in Data. Faith in Analysts
Elizabeth Sall, Deputy Director for Technology Services, San Francisco County Transportation Authority
The Why, How and What of Livable Streets from Policy to Implementation
Bryan D. Jones, Deputy Director, Transportation Department, City of Carlsbad
High-Speed Rail: Engineering the Future
Jeff Morales, Chief Executive Officer, California High-Speed Rail Authority
Rural-Urban Connections Strategy: Planning and Transportation Funding for the Rest of the Region
David Shabazian, Principal Program Expert, Sacramento Area Council of Governments
UAV's: Designing Battery Powered Flying Vehicles to Support Construction, Agriculture, Mining, and Energy Sectors
Sam Miller, Chief Technology Officer, Skycatch
Incorporating Behavioral Effects from Vehicle Choice Models into Bottom-Up Energy Sector Models
David S. Bunch, Professor, Graduate School of Management and Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis
Nash-Stackelberg Games in Transportation Networks: Leveraging the Power of Smartphones for Traffic Monitoring and Management
Alexandre M. Bayen, Chancellor's Professor and Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
Lessons Learned from Spatiotemporal Studies of Freeway Carpool Lanes
Michael Cassidy, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley ***NOTE: If you have trouble accessing the seminar online using Chrome, please use a different web browser. ***
Examining Alternative Causal Structures Using a Latent Segmentation Modeling Approach
Naveen Eluru, Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida
Moving Towards Better Measurement and Modeling of Long Distance Travel
Lisa Aultman-Hall, Professor, School of Engineering and Transportation Research Center, University of Vermont
Attitudes Toward Transportation Choices and Parking Policies
Wei-Shiuen Ng, Postdoctoral Scholar, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center, Stanford University
A New Way of Building, Managing and Financing Transportation Infrastructure
Jonathan Gifford, Professor of Transportation Policy at George Mason University and Director of the Center for Transportation Public-Private Partnership Policy
Analysis of Approach Features from a Bicyclist Perspective to Estimate Performance Measures for Two-Way Stop-Controlled (TWSC) Intersections
Anurag Pande, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
Science and the Stock Market: Investors’ Recognition of Unburnable Carbon
Paul Griffin, Associate Dean / Professor of Management, Graduate School of Management, UC Davis
How Will We Know When the PEV Market Has Reached Takeoff?
Tom Turrentine, Director, PH&EV Research Center, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis
Not All EVs Are Equal: Heterogeneity in Behavior and Energy Consumption in the Plug-in Vehicle Fleet
Stephen M. Zoepf, PhD Candidate, Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Evolution of Transportation Planning – The Shift from Mobility to Accessibility
Ronald T. Milam, Principal-In-Charge of Technical Development, Fehr & Peers
Defining and Measuring Equity in Public Transit Service Provision
Alex Karner, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Walton Sustainability Fellowship Program, Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives, Arizona State University
How Many Runs? Analytical Method for Optimal Scenario Sampling to Estimate the Variance of Travel Time Distributions in Vehicular Traffic Networks -- Winner of the 2014 TRB Ryuichi Kitamura Best Paper Award
Jiwon Kim, Assistant Professor, Transport Group, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia
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| Poster Session: | Jeff Kessler, Grad Student, TTP, “Patents and Biofuels: Using Natural Language Processing to Assess Biofuel Innovations” | |Susie Pike, Grad Student, TTP, “Endogeneity in Social Influence and Transportation Mode Choice Using Ego Networks” | |Aaron Fackler, Grad Student, TTP, “Collaborative Partnering on Construction Project: The Current State of Understanding”| |Kate Tiedeman, Grad Student, TTP, “Increasing Water Use and Produced Water Intensity of California Conventional and Tight Oil Production”| |Huijing Deng, Grad Student, TTP, “Factors Influencing Full-day, Part-day and Overtime Telecommuting: An Investigation of Northern California Workers”| | Podium Presentations: |1:40 to 2:00 pm: Susie Pike, Grad Student, TTP, “Social Influences on Transportation Mode Choice within Ego-Networks of University Students”| |2:00 to 2:30 pm: Kevin Fang, Grad Student, TTP, “Switching From LOS-based to VMT-based Traffic Impact Analysis: What Should the Threshold of Significance Be? A Challenging Upcoming Question in California Environmental Review” | |
A Century of Urban Sprawl in the United States
Adam Millard-Ball, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Department, UC Santa Cruz
Together Again: Linkages Between Transportation and Power in a Low Carbon Economy
Daniel A. Lashof, Chief Operating Officer of NextGen Climate America Inc. and NRDC Senior Fellow, Washington, D.C.
The Effect of Bicycle Facilities on the Decision to Commute by Bicycle, Congestion and Air Quality: New Evidence from Albuquerque, New Mexico
Gregory Rowangould, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Mexico
It’s Not Technical, It’s Organizational: Understanding BRT Shortcomings in China
Allie Thomas, Postdoctoral Researcher, ITS-Davis
Sustainable Transportation in California
Kate White, Deputy Secretary of Environmental Policy and Housing Coordination, California State Transportation Agency
Overview of Sustainable Urban Freight Practices and Public Sector Interventions
Miguel A. Jaller, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis
Transportation Demand Management: A Brief Overview
Brodie Hamilton, Transportation Demand Management Consultant
The Rise of Electric Bikes in the US: An Analysis of their Roots, their Early Adopters, and Implications on Urban Transportation
Jonathan Weinert, Sales and Marketing Manager, Robert Bosch LLC, Automotive Electronics, Bosch eBike Systems
Emerging Best Practices to Accelerate Electric Vehicle Deployment
Nic Lutsey, Program Director, The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT)
Why Don't Teenagers Drive Anymore? Factors Associated With Delayed Driver's License Acquisition Among High School Students
Rodney Brown, Engineer/Planner at Fehr & Peers
Improving Air Transportation System Performance through Coordinated Speed Control
Michael O. Ball, Robert H Smith School of Business & Institute for Systems Research University of Maryland and Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
Road Ecology and Transformative Change in Sustainable Transportation
Fraser Shilling, Co-Director, Road Ecology Center, UC Davis
Efficiency Measurement and the Design of Engineered Systems for Resilience: Themes and Future Research Opportunities
Konstantinos (Kostas) Triantis, John Lawrence Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Virginia Tech
LOS to VMT: A Paradigm Shift in Transportation Planning
Chris Ganson, Senior Planner, Governor's Office of Planning and Research
The potential of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) on future transport systems
Maria Attard, Professor, University of Malta, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, Director, Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Incentivize It and They Will Come: How Local Governments Are Leveraging Airline Incentive Programs to Grow Air Service
Megan S. Ryerson, Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
The Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP) in Europe: Planning Walking and Sojourning in Streets and Public Spaces
Thanos Vlastos, Professor of Urban & Transport Planning at National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), School of Surveying Engineering, Department of Geography and Regional Planning
Making Geosense of Transportation, Trade, Environment, and Energy: indicators, impacts, and opportunities for international shipping
James Corbett, Professor, School of Marine Science and Policy, University of Delaware
Household and Firm Responses to Gasoline Prices and Energy Policy
William Chi Chiao Leung, Postdoctoral Researcher, Economics Department, UC Davis and Economics Fellow, California Air Resources Board
What does a ‘Sustainable’ Neighborhood Development Pattern look like: Past, Present, Future Fused Grids and Beyond
Gord Lovegrove, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, Sustainable Transport Safety Research Laboratory, The University of British Columbia
Social Networks and Travel Behavior: An Investigation into the Role of Social Influence in the Transportation Mode Choices of Students
Susie Pike, Postdoctoral Researcher, ITS-Davis and Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior, UC Davis
High-Speed Rail: Connecting and Transforming California
Dan Richard, Chair, Board of Directors, California High-Speed Rail Authority
What is Complete Trip and How Do We Achieve It?
Ron Kilcoyne, General Manager, Lane Transit District
Why Is It So Difficult To Implement Sound Freight Policies?
Jolanda Prozzi, Program Manager, Research Scientist, Environment and Planning, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
From Trend Spotting to Trend Setting: Behavioral Analysis to Guide Transformative Mobility
Joan Walker, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Co-Director, Center for Global Metropolitan Studies, UC Berkeley
We Used to Be Like China: How California Is Achieving the Seemingly Impossible - Clean Air, Economic Progress, Vibrant Development - and, While at It, Setting the Stage for Deep De-Carbonization of Transportation
Alberto Ayala, Deputy Executive Officer, California Air Resources Board
Working at the Intersection of Science, Policy and Politics / West Coast Sustainable Transportation Policy Update
Colin Murphy, Climate Policy Advocate, NextGen Climate America
Caltrans’ Sustainability, Livability and Economy Goal
Steven Cliff, Assistant Director, Sustainability, California Department of Transportation
Motive Power for Railroads
Andreas Hoffrichter, Research Fellow in Railway Vehicles, Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick
Biofuels: Need, Land, Carbon, and Development
Lee R. Lynd, Paul E. and Joan H. Queneau Distinguished Professor in Environmental Engineering Design, Adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College
Fuel Tax Incidence and Policy
Erich Muehlegger, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UC Davis
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