Research

The severity of the Bay Area’s homelessness crisis is visible everywhere—from the tents that crowd under freeways to the increasing number of people sleeping on sidewalks and in doorways. Largely hidden from view, however, are the 457,000 extremely low-income (ELI) households in the region who are making ends meet on an average of $18,000 a year. Over half of ELI households are precariously housed, meaning that they don’t receive any housing assistance and pay more than 30 percent of their income for housing. These households—which include seniors living on fixed incomes, single parents...

The Oliver Wyman Forum, in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley, presents the Urban Mobility Readiness Index, a ranking of 60 major cities worldwide on their preparedness for mobility’s next chapter. A summary of this year’s index captures the themes that define mobility’s new future.

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The 1972 Clean Air Act has driven spectacular decreases in pollution from U.S. passenger vehicles but poses a challenge for pollution policy in poor communities, according to the first comprehensive study of air pollution exhaust standards, by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley; the University of California, San Diego; and the University of Pennsylvania, including ITS affiliate...

Civil and Environmental Engineering doctoral student Xuan Jiang presented the paper A metrics-based method for evaluating corridors for urban air mobility operations at the 8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference 2022 proceedings, held Sept. 26-29, 2022. The paper was...