Area of Expertise: Travel Behavior, Land Use, &amp; the Built Environment

Public Transit, Shared Mobility, & Active Transportation Safety, Public Health, & Mobility Justice Travel Behavior, Land Use, & the Built Environment

Recent Projects

Charging up the Central Coast: Policy Solutions to Improve Electric Vehicle Charging Access in Watsonville

Research Team:

Ethan Elkind (lead), Shruti Sarode, Katie Segal, Maia Baltzley, Louise Bedsworth

UC Campus(es):

UC Berkeley

Addressing High Capital Costs and Delays for California’s Major Transportation Projects

Research Team:

Ethan Elkind (lead)

UC Campus(es):

UC Berkeley

Recent Publications

research report

Charging Up the Central Coast: Policy Solutions to Improve Electric Vehicle Charging Access in Watsonville

research report

Getting Back on Track: Policy Solutions to Improve California Rail Transit Projects

policy brief

How Can California Transit Agencies Build Rail Cheaper and Faster?

Elizabeth Deakin

Professor Emerita, Department of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley

Areas of Expertise

Contact

Email:

edeakin@berkeley.edu

Public Transit, Shared Mobility, & Active Transportation Travel Behavior, Land Use, & the Built Environment

Recent Projects

Stakeholder Perspectives and Strategies for Reviving Public Transit Ridership to Downtowns and Employment Centers in the Bay Area

Research Team:

Elizabeth Deakin (lead), Egon Terplan

UC Campus(es):

UC Berkeley

Markets and Program Options for E-Bikes in California

Research Team:

Elizabeth Deakin (lead)

UC Campus(es):

UC Berkeley

Best Practices for the Public Management of Electric Scooters

Research Team:

Elizabeth Deakin (lead)

UC Campus(es):

UC Berkeley

Recent Publications

white paper

Reviving public transit ridership to downtowns and employment centers: Case Studies of San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley, and Walnut Creek

research report

Struggling to Connect: Housing and Transportation Challenges of Low-Income Suburban Residents in the San Francisco Bay Area

policy brief

Low-Income Suburban Residents in the San Francisco Bay Area Face Significant Housing and Transportation Issues

Dana Cuff

Director and Professor, cityLAB, and Department of Architecture and Urban Design, UCLA

Areas of Expertise

Contact

Email:

dcuff@aud.ucla.edu

Intelligent Transportation Systems, Emerging Technologies, & Big Data Public Transit, Shared Mobility, & Active Transportation Travel Behavior, Land Use, & the Built Environment

Recent Projects

Mapping Mobilities: Opportunities for Centering Youth in Mobility Research, Design, and Planning

Research Team:

Dana Cuff (lead), Claire Nelischer

UC Campus(es):

UCLA

Sidewalking: A Toolkit for Engaging Youth in Planning and Designing Urban Mobility Futures

Research Team:

Dana Cuff (lead), Yang Yang, Claire Nelischer

UC Campus(es):

UCLA

Pathways to Autonomy: Supporting Youth Independent Mobility in Westlake, Los Angeles

Research Team:

Dana Cuff (lead), Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris

UC Campus(es):

UCLA

Recent Publications

published journal article

The social life of the sidewalk: tracing the mobility experiences of youth in Westlake, Los Angeles

research report

Sidewalking: A Toolkit for Engaging Youth in Planning and Designing Urban Mobility Futures

research report

Pathways to Autonomy: Supporting Youth Independent Mobility in Westlake, Los Angeles

Adam Cohen

Survey Researcher, Transportation Sustainability Research Center, UC Berkeley

Areas of Expertise

Contact

Email:

apcohen@berkeley.edu

Intelligent Transportation Systems, Emerging Technologies, & Big Data Public Transit, Shared Mobility, & Active Transportation Safety, Public Health, & Mobility Justice Travel Behavior, Land Use, & the Built Environment

Recent Projects

Designing Microtransit Services to Complement Public Transit

Research Team:

Susan Shaheen (lead), Susan Pike, Kari Edison Watkins, Adam Cohen, Michael Hyland

UC Campus(es):

UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine

Feasibility Study on the Implementation of Earthquake Early Warning in Airports

Research Team:

Mark Hansen (lead), Adam Cohen

UC Campus(es):

UC Berkeley

How Shared Mobility Can Complement or Compete with Transit

Research Team:

Susan Shaheen (lead), Michael Hyland, Jacob Wasserman, Elliot Martin, Adam Cohen, Brooke (Schmidt) Wolfe

UC Campus(es):

UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, UCLA

Recent Publications

published journal article

Navigating the gig economy: transportation labor challenges facing California’s app-based ridehailing and courier drivers

policy brief

Student Access to Community College Relies Heavily on Private Vehicle Use

white paper

Strategies for Improving Community College Access in California

Giovanni Circella

Director, 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program, UC Davis

Areas of Expertise

Contact

Email:

gcircella@ucdavis.edu

Intelligent Transportation Systems, Emerging Technologies, & Big Data Travel Behavior, Land Use, & the Built Environment

Recent Projects

A Review and Synthesis of Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Urban Logistics

Research Team:

Yongsung Lee (lead), Giovanni Circella, Miguel Jaller

UC Campus(es):

UC Davis

Examining Ride-hailing Use Pre- and Post-COVID

Research Team:

Giovanni Circella (lead), Yongsung Lee, Patrick Loa

UC Campus(es):

UC Davis

Understanding the “New Normal:” Activity and Mobility Patterns of Low-Income and Disadvantaged Communities in the Era of Hybrid Work and High Gas Prices

Research Team:

Giovanni Circella (lead), Basar Ozbilen, Maria Carolina Lecompte

UC Campus(es):

UC Davis

Recent Publications

policy brief

How Did Travel Change after COVID-19? Insights from Northern California Megaregion

published journal article

Examining Post-pandemic Ride-Hailing Use in California and Its Determinants

preprint journal article

Novel Methodology to Identify Factors Causing Heterogeneity in Travel Demand during and after the Pandemic

Daniel G. Chatman

Chair and Professor, Department of City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley

Areas of Expertise

Contact

Email:

dgc@berkeley.edu

Freight, Logistics, & Supply Chain Travel Behavior, Land Use, & the Built Environment

Recent Projects

Exploring the Impacts of Working at Home and Online Shopping on Post-Pandemic Travel and Transportation Policy in California

Research Team:

Daniel G. Chatman (lead), Yage Liu

UC Campus(es):

UC Berkeley

Assessing the Perspective of Labor Unions on California’s Policy Goals Related to Sustainable Transportation

Research Team:

Daniel G. Chatman (lead), Tamara Kerzhner

UC Campus(es):

UC Berkeley

Investigating Transportation and Housing Linkages for the State of California

Research Team:

Daniel G. Chatman (lead), Tamara Kerzhner

UC Campus(es):

UC Berkeley

Recent Publications

research report

Policies to Improve Transportation Sustainability, Accessibility, and Housing Affordability in the State of California

policy brief

Insights on Autonomous Vehicle Policy from Early Adopter Cities and Regions

research report

Autonomous Vehicles in the United States: Understanding Why and How Cities and Regions Are Responding

Karen Chapple

Professor Emerita, Department of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley

Areas of Expertise

Contact

Email:

chapple@berkeley.edu

Travel Behavior, Land Use, & the Built Environment

Recent Projects

Identifying Strategies to Preserve Transit-accessible Affordable Housing

Research Team:

Karen Chapple (lead), Madeleine Parker

UC Campus(es):

UC Berkeley

The Impacts of Upzoning on Housing Production and Communities in California

Research Team:

Carolina Reid (lead), Carol Galante, Jared Nolan, Simon Hochberg, Elizabeth Kneebone, David Garcia, Anna Cash, Karen Chapple

UC Campus(es):

UC Berkeley

Recent Publications

policy brief

Will California Lose Thousands of Affordable Homes Near Transit?

research report

Strategies to Preserve Transit-accessible Affordable Housing in Southern California

research report

Using GPS Tracking to Understand the Transportation Costs of Displacement: A San Francisco Pilot

Bob Cervero

Professor Emeritus, Department of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley

Areas of Expertise

Contact

Email:

robertc@berkeley.edu

Travel Behavior, Land Use, & the Built Environment Zero-Emission Vehicles & Low-Carbon Fuels

Pierpaolo Cazzola

Senior Researcher, UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies Europe Center, UC Davis

Areas of Expertise

Contact

Email:

pcazzola@ucdavis.edu

Infrastructure Delivery, Operations, & Resilience Public Transit, Shared Mobility, & Active Transportation Safety, Public Health, & Mobility Justice Travel Behavior, Land Use, & the Built Environment Zero-Emission Vehicles & Low-Carbon Fuels

Recent Projects

Comparing California and European Strategies for Reaching Very Low Carbon Transportation Systems

Research Team:

Lewis Fulton (lead), Pierpaolo Cazzola, Marshall Miller, Aditya Ramji

UC Campus(es):

UC Davis

Michael Cassidy

Robert Horenjeff Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley

Areas of Expertise

Contact

Email:

cassidy@ce.berkeley.edu