Carbon Neutral Transportation
The carbon neutrality pillar includes a suite of projects focused on decarbonizing California’s transportation sector. The projects are designed to support and inform existing and future efforts to shift California toward clean transportation fuels and technologies and to reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT). The projects in the carbon neutrality pillar fall into seven topical areas including: 1) light-duty electric vehicles, 2) heavy-duty zero emission vehicles, 3) freight and logistics, 4) grid-impacts of vehicle electrification, 5) low-carbon liquid fuels, 6) hydrogen, and 7) VMT-based policies for sustainability.
Phase 1 Objectives:
- Understanding the current electric vehicle market to support California’s transition to a 100% zero emissions vehicles and examine future scenarios to forecast grid impacts, challenges, and opportunities.
- Providing policy guidance to shape the decarbonization of land-based logistics chains. Answering critical policy questions about low-carbon liquid fuels via rapid, evidence-based policy analysis.
- Examining the fundamental drivers of VMT growth to inform the next generation of VMT-based policies.
- Creating a system for capturing data from heavy-duty zero emission vehicles and fleets and investigating the potential impacts of policy interventions.
- Identifying opportunities for hydrogen in California’s transportation sector.
Phase 1 Projects:
Phase 1 includes the following research projects. These projects will either be completed or extended by summer 2023, as appropriate.
Research Team: Timothy Lipman (lead) and Arpad Horvath
UC Campus(es): UC Berkeley
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Sriram Narasimhan (lead), Tierra Bills, Ertugrul Taciroglu, and Sven Malama
UC Campus(es): UCLA
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Gregory Pierce (lead) and Rachel Connolly
UC Campus(es): UCLA
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Dana Cuff (lead), Yang Yang, and Claire Nelischer
UC Campus(es): UCLA
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Brian Taylor (lead), Susan Pike, Samuel Speroni, and Fariba Siddiq
UC Campus(es): UC Davis, UCLA
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Mark Fathi Massoud (lead), Adam Millard-Ball, and Huzaifa Shahbaz
UC Campus(es): UCLA, UC Santa Cruz
Status: In Progress
Research Lead: Evelyn Blumenberg
UC Campus(es): UCLA
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Scott Samuelsen (lead), Michael MacKinnon, and Shupeng Zhu
UC Campus(es): UC Irvine
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Jae Hong Kim (lead) and Nicholas Marantz
UC Campus(es): UC Irvine
Status: In Progress
Research Lead: Matthew D. Dean
UC Campus(es): UC Irvine
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Lewis Fulton (lead), Timothy Lipman, Daniel Coffee, Tri Dev Acharya, and Jasenka Rakas
UC Campus(es): UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCLA
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Julie Witcover (lead) and Lew Fulton
UC Campus(es): UC Davis
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Alan Jenn (lead), Scott Hardman, Aaron Rabinowitz, and Yanning Li
UC Campus(es): UC Davis
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Miguel Jaller (lead), Maria Catalina Valencia, and Juan Lopez
UC Campus(es): UC Davis
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Scott Hardman (lead), Maha Shafeen, and Kelly Hoogland
UC Campus(es): UC Davis
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Susan Shaheen (lead), Elliot Martin, and Mengying Ju
UC Campus(es): UC Berkeley
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Scott Moura (lead), Duncan Callaway, Marta Gonzalez, and Tugba Ozturk
UC Campus(es): UC Berkeley
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Charisma Acey (lead) and Margaretta Lin
UC Campus(es): UC Berkeley
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Adam Millard-Ball (lead), Susan Handy
UC Campus(es): UC Davis, UCLA
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Jay Jayakrishnan (lead), Michael McNally, Michael Hyland
UC Campus(es): UC Irvine
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Adam Millard-Ball (lead) and Susan Handy
UC Campus(es): UC Davis, UCLA
Status: In Progress
Research Lead: Colin Murphy (lead), Julie Witcover, Jin Wook Ro, and Pedro Liedo Orozco
UC Campus(es): UC Davis
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Jean-Daniel Saphores (lead), Michael Hyland, Stephen Ritchie, Miguel Jaller, and Lu Xu
UC Campus(es): UC Davis, UC Irvine
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Mark Hansen (lead), Tim Lipman, Colin Murphy, and Jin Wook Ro
UC Campus(es): UC Berkeley, UC Davis
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Tim Lipman (lead), Scott Moura, Alan Jenn, Behdad Kiani, Jean-Daniel Saphores, and Steve Ritchie
UC Campus(es): UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Stephen Ritchie (lead), Behdad Kiani, Andre Tok, Tim Lipman, Miguel Jaller, and Alan Jenn
UC Campus(es): UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Alan Jenn (lead), Tim Lipman, Scott Moura, and Gil Tal
UC Campus(es): UC Berkeley, UC Davis
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Miguel Jaller (lead), Jean-Daniel Saphores, and Michael Hyland
UC Campus(es): UC Davis, UC Irvine
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Stephen G. Ritchie (lead), Craig Rindt, Youngeun Bae, Marshall Miller, and Lew Fulton
UC Campus(es): UC Davis, UC Irvine
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Marshall Miller (lead), Lew Fulton, Steve Ritchie, Craig Rindt, and Youngeun Bae
UC Campus(es): UC Davis, UC Irvine
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Debapriya Chakraborty (lead), Gil Tal, Adam Davis, Scott Hardman, and Tim Lipman
UC Campus(es): UC Berkeley, UC Davis
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Gil Tal (lead), Ken Kurani, Debapriya Chakraborty, Adam Davis, Scott Hardman, and Tim Lipman
UC Campus(es): UC Berkeley, UC Davis
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Lew Fulton (lead), Chris Yang, Alan Jenn, Tri Dev Acharya, Daniel Coffee, and David Wong
UC Campus(es): UC Davis, UCLA
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Timothy Lipman (lead), Arpad Horvath, Alissa Kendall, Lewis Fulton, Daniel Coffee, Stephanie Collins, and Pablo Busch
UC Campus(es): UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCLA
Status: In Progress
Research Team: Lew Fulton (lead), Jeff Reed, Tim Lipman, Arpad Horvath, Stephanie Collins, Allissa Kendall, Pablo Busch
UC Campus(es): UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine
Status: In Progress