Seminars

Land Use and Transportation

March 15, 2024

Thank you to Ken Alex, director of Project Climate at the University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy and Environment, who presented Land Use and Transportation at the Transportation Seminar on Mar. 15, 2024.

Abstract: SB 743 became law in 2013, enabling a significant change in how the transportation impacts of development projects are evaluated under the California Environmental Quality Act. Environmental review that once focused on “level of service” impacts, must now determine how development projects impact vehicle miles...

Pigovian Transport Pricing in Practice

March 1, 2024

Thank you to Beat Hintermann, Professor of Business and Economics at University of Basel, who presented Pigovian Transport Pricing in Practice at the Transportation Seminar Mar. 1, 2024. Thank you to our co-sponsor, the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Abstract: Pigovian transport pricing is implemented in a large-scale field experiment in urban agglomerations of Switzerland. The pricing varies across time, space and mode of transport. One third of the participants is given a financial incentive to reduce their external costs of transport...

Envisioning Mobility Justice Within California’s Transportation Systems

March 8, 2024

Thank you to Adonia Lugo, Equity Research Manager at University of California Institute of Transportation Studies/ITS UCLA, who presented Envisioning Mobility Justice Within California’s Transportation Systems at the Berkeley Transportation Seminar on Mar. 8, 2024.

Abstract: Can we address historic inequities in our transportation systems and support shifting to sustainable transportation behavior at the same time? Lugo will share insights from her work as an anthropologist engaged with the grassroots mobility justice movement and where she...

What Risk Factors Contribute to E-scooter Crashes? Findings from a naturalistic riding study on a University campus

September 29, 2023

Thank you to Andrea Broaddus, Transportation Policy Researcher, who presented What Risk Factors Contribute to E-scooter Crashes? Findings from a naturalistic riding study on a University campus at the Transportation Seminar Sept. 29, 2023.

Abstract: Although shared fleets of e-scooters have grown in popularity over the past decade, we are just beginning to understand risk factors contributing to crash and injury rates among riders. In this naturalistic riding study, a fleet of 200 e-scooters on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, VA was instrumented with...

How Open are Our Skies? Re-exploring the Airspace for Revitalizing Air Mobility

October 20, 2023

Thank you to Dr. Vishwanath Bulusu, Aerospace Research Scientist, Crown Consulting Inc., NASA Ames, who presented How Open are Our Skies? Re-exploring the Airspace for Revitalizing Air Mobility at the Transportation Seminar Oct. 20, 2023.

Abstract: Even though 60% of America lives within 10 miles of a regional airport, 20th century aviation accounts for less than 0.2% regional trips under 300 miles. By leveraging these underutilized airports, urban and regional air mobility can connect lower-income counties to jobs and services concentrated in higher-income...

Travel Forecasting in San Francisco in a Time of Disruption: Activity-Based Model Data, Applications, Developments, and Challenges

October 27, 2023

Thank you to Joe Castiglione, Deputy Director for Technology, Data & Analysis San Francisco County Transportation Authority, who presented Travel Forecasting in San Francisco in a Time of Disruption: Activity-Based Model Data, Applications, Developments, and Challenges at the Transportation Seminar Oct. 27, 2023.

Abstract: The past decade has witnessed tremendous disruptions in travel patterns, from the emergence of new transportation-related services such as Uber and Lyft, to the deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs), to...

Long-distance airport passenger markets and their implications for aviation emissions

December 1, 2023

Thank you to Amy M. Kim, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, who presented Long-distance airport passenger markets and their implications for aviation emissions at the Transportation Seminar Dec. 1, 2023.

Abstract: Air services and resulting emissions at airports of different sizes and functions are not expected to be uniformly impacted by price-based environmental policies such as carbon offset charges, carbon taxes and carbon credits. To understand variabilities, we empirically map the relationship between airfare (a...

Rediscovering Normal: History as the Key to the Transport Transition

February 2, 2024

Thank you to Peter Norton, Associate Professor, Department of Engineering and Society, University of Virginia, who presented Rediscovering Normal: History as the Key to the Transport Transition at the Transportation Seminar Feb. 2, 2024.

Abstract: Transportation experts are the heirs of a forgotten revolution in the governing axioms of their discipline. Their predecessors of a century ago agreed that automobiles can play only a limited part in passenger transportation. Following an ideological revolution that its proponents themselves called a “...

The Promise and the Challenge of Advanced Air Mobility

February 9, 2024

Thank you to Hamsa Balakrishnan, William E. Leonhard (1940) Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who presented The Promise and the Challenge of Advanced Air Mobility at the ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminar Friday Feb. 9, 2024.

Abstract: Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)—characterized by electric or hybrid aircraft, and highly-automated operations—has the potential to dramatically transform the way in which we transport people and goods, as well as our ability to sense our world from the sky. The...

Accelerating Deep Decarbonization of US Transportation Modes

February 23, 2024

Thank you to Chris Hendrickson, Hamerschlag University Professor of Engineering Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon University, who presented Accelerating Deep Decarbonization of US Transportation Modes at the Transportation Seminar Feb. 23, 2024.

Abstract: Climate change is already causing large damages from sea level rise, drought, and extreme weather. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions (often called ‘decarbonization’ reflecting the role of carbon dioxide in greenhouse warming) is imperative if these costs are to be mitigated or reduced. This seminar will draw on...