Fast Facts is a research summary series, created for students, by students. These one-sheeters focus on cutting edge transportation research funded by METRANS PSR. Please see below!

 

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California Climate Change Target Setting

Author(s): Austin Brown, Lew Fulton, Rosa Dominguez-Faus

Year: 2019

Keywords: Public transit, land use, and urban mobility sustainability, energy, and health

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Ultra-high-accuracy Digital Terrain Model Mapping for Assessing Roadway Vulnerability to Sea-level Rise and Flooding

Author(s): Qi Chen

Year: 2020

Keywords: Mapping, LiDAR, Transportation, Digital Terrain Models

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Cost-Sharing Mechanisms for Ridesharing 

Author(s): Maged M. Dessousky, Phebe Vayanos, Shichun Hu

Year: 2020

Keywords: Public transit, land use, and urban mobility vehicles and infrastructure 

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Stormwater Drainage Design and Best Management Practices with Applications to Roadways and Climate Change

Authors: Oceana Puananilei Francis, Linqiang Yang

Year: 2020

Keywords: sustainability, energy, health, transportation planning, policy, finance 

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An Analysis of Accessibility, Social Interaction, and Activity-Travel Fragmentation in California 

Author(s): Konstadinos G. Goulias, Elizabeth C. McBride, Adam W. Davis

Year: 2019

Keywords: public transit, land use, urban mobility, transportation planning, policy, and finance 

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Connected Autonomous Vehicles: Safety During Merging and Lane Changing and Impact on Traffic Flow

Author(s): Petros Ioannou, Fernando V. Monteiro 

Year: 2020

Keywords: Connected and autonomous systems, safety and security

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Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Freight Patterns in Southern California 

Author(s): Miguel Jaller, Daniel Rivera, John Harvey, Changmo Kim, Jeremy Lea

Year: 2020

Keywords: E-commerce and urban freight, freight logstics and optimization

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Public Transit Safety Among University Students

Author(s): Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Madeline Brozen, Hao Ding, Miriam Pinski, Fariba Siddiq 

Year: 2020

Keywords: public transit, land use and urban mobility safety and security 

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The Opportunity Cost of Parking Requirements: would Silicon Valley be richer if its parking requirements were lower?

Author(s): Michael Manville, CJ Gabbe, Taner Osman

Year: 2020

Keywords: parking, land use, urban mobility, transportation planning, policy, finance 

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Making Bicycling Equitable: Lessons from Sociocultural Research

Author(s): Sarah Rebolloso McCullough, Adonia Lugo, Rebecca van Stokkum

Year: 2018

Keywords: public transit, land use, and urban mobility, transportation planning, policy, finance

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Davis Amtrak Station Pilot Project Evaluation: Informing Long Term Solutions to the Davis Amtrack Station Access Barriers

Author(s): Susan Pike

Year: 2020

Keywords: parking, land use, urban mobility, transportation planning, policy, finance 

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Residential Parcel Deliveries: Evidence from a Large Apartment Complex

Author(s): Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue

Year: 2018-2019

Keywords: Sustainability, energy, and health 

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Life Cycle Assessment of Environmental and Economic Impacts of Deploying Alternative Urban Bus PowerTrain Technologies in the South Coast Air Basin

Author(s): Scott Samuelsen, Brian Tarroja, Analy Castillo Munoz

Year: 2020

Keywords: sustainability, energy, health, public transit, policy

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Deep-Learning Traffic Flow Prediction for Forecasting Performance Measurement of Public Transportation Systems 

Author(s): Cyrus Shahabi, Yao Yi Chiang, Min Mun, Luan Tran

Year: 2020

Keywords: public transit, congestion, urban mobility, performance reliability

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Automated Analysis of Wildlife-Vehicle Conflict Hotspots Using Carcass and Collision Data

Author(s): Fraser Shilling, Cameron Denney, David Waetjen

Year: 2019

Keywords: Safety and security, transportation planning, policy, finance 

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