Seminar Archive: 2013-2014
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
TRB Preview
| 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
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