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Dr. Giovanni Circella presents our most recent COVID-19 research in this free UC Davis broadcast 

In the majority staff report, political leaders recognize the importance of ensuring that Autonomous Vehicles reduce Carbon Dioxide emissions. 

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Building Block: Ensure Autonomous Vehicle Technology Reduces Carbon Dioxide Emissions 

"We are most likely to change our transportation habits during big milestones or disruptions in life such as starting a new job or sending kids off to school. Or, of course, like the global pandemic that has shut many of us inside our homes for much of the time.

The UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment, and the Economy submitted comment to the State of California with support from the 3 Revolutions Policy Initiative. The comments were submitted to the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) regarding several key topics: 

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"Certainly the evidence to date points to an overall increase in greenhouse gas emissions associated with ride-hailing under current market conditions,” said Giovanni Circella of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis, which provided some of the data used by UCS.

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"There’s simply not enough housing to live in the Bay Area, and even housing units are very expensive," Circella said. "So, a lot of lower-income workers cannot afford to live in San Francisco and they need to commute long distances."  Circella said their research shows that in the next 20 to 30 years, traffic is expected to become much worse. The amount of people commuting is expected to increase due to the Bay Area's strong economy and innovation providing more jobs.

The study, a collaboration between researchers at Oxford, Bocconi University, and the University of California-Davis, exploited differences in the timing of the deployment of Uber across Britain to test the association between the advent of Uber’s services and rate of fatal and non-fatal accidents in those areas.

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The International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR) is an international organization of scholars, researchers, practitioners, consultants, and public agency professionals dedicated to the advancement of travel behaviour research.  The organization aims to serve as a forum that brings together professionals from a wide range of disciplines interested in the study of the factors that influence activity and travel choices of people and businesses, the formulation of new computational and analytical modeling methods and approaches for forecasting activity-travel demand

It’s the second day of a workshop hosted by the university’s Institute of Transportation Studies. Ward’s presentation includes news about recent advances at DOE regarding energy-efficient vehicles, ride-sharing, autonomous travel and other elements of a movement that is transforming the way we get around.

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