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STEPS, Institute of Transportation Studies, Davis

2028 Academic Surge
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616

(530) 752-6548 phone

 

Welcome

Established in 2007, the STEPS program aims to in­form the public debate and to assist the private sec­tor and government agencies by providing tools and knowledge concerning sustainable transportation al­ternatives. More than twenty generous sponsors fund a STEPS research team that includes fifteen faculty and research scientists and twenty-five graduate students, drawn from a variety of departments.

In March 2009, the Program hosted its third annual STEPS Policy Symposium, focusing on perfor­mance and market-based policies that support R&D and technology innovation while stimulating pre-commercialization activities.

Over the past few months, STEPS researchers presented their research at numerous conferences. High­lighted in the latest newsletter are Ken Kurani’s “Consumer Response to HEVs and PHEVs” presented at the SAE 2009 Hybrid Vehicle Technology Symposium and Nicholas Lutsey’s “Comparing Transportation Tech­nologies in a Greenhouse Gas Supply Curve for the United States” presented at the 2009 Transporta­tion Research Board (TRB) conference.

To Learn More - refer to the information in the Quick links section for additional Program information

Feature Publications & Reports: (to view all publications, click here)

  • "Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability." - Dan Sperling and Deborah Gordon. 2009. New York: Oxford University Press. click here

    • UC Davis has a featurette on Dan Sperling's new book: click here

    • ITS-Davis Director Dan Sperling appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. click here

  • "US Military Expenditures to Protect the use of Persian Gulf Oil for Motor Vehicles." - Mark Delucchi, and James Murphy click here

  • “Optimizing U.S. Mitigation Strategies for the Light-duty Transportation Sector: What We Learn from a Bottom-up Model" - Sonia Yeh click here

  • “Detailed Analysis of Urban Station Siting for California Hydrogen Highway Network.” - Michael Nicholas, and Joan Ogden click here

  • "Strategic Assessment of Bioenergy Development in the West" - Nathan Parker, and Bryan Jenkins click here


Research Scope - Our comparative research is organized by energy categories (columns in the image below), and subject areas (rows below). For a detailed description of our research, click here. For the full size STEPS Matrix poster with current projects, click here.  By clicking on the research or fuel title in the figure below, you will be taken to a research discription page.