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Sustainable Transportation Center

Outreach Overview

Technology transfer, or more simply, public outreach activities that enable information-sharing between members of the UC Davis academic community and beyond, is a critical component of the STC’s mission. Activities that bring new people with new viewpoints to campus, and, conversely, that take campus experts and researchers to venues away from academia strengthen the overall program and contribute to society.

The STC conducts three main forms of outreach:


  • The Visiting Practitioner Program
  • The Quarterly Electronic Newsletter
  • Sponsored Events, such as conferences and seminars

The Visiting Practitioner Program


The goal of the UC Davis Sustainable Transportation Center’s Visiting Practitioner Program is to strengthen ties between the research and education elements of the STC and transportation practice. Each year, the program supports one visitor who works on an applied research project, conducts seminars for ITS-Davis students, and organizes workshops on selected topics for the transportation planning community.

The 2009-2010 Visiting Practitioner: Richard Lee

The 2007-2008 Visiting Practitioner: Ellen Greenberg

Ellen Greenberg

The Visiting Practitioner Program launched in summer 2007 with the arrival of Ellen Greenberg (pictured left), a city planning and urban design consultant focused on implementing the goals of smart growth, sustainability and livable communities through an integrated approach to land use, transportation and urban design. Her one-year term continues through Spring 2008. While with the STC, Ms. Greenberg is giving seminars and leading an applied research project on sustainable street design. For more information about the project, please visit the Sustainable Streets Project page.



Newsletters

ITS-Davis e-News

The Institute’s quarterly electronic newsletter has tracked the creation and development of the Sustainable Transportation Center’s beginning. In 2007, ITS-Davis e-news created a new section devoted exclusively to coverage of STC education, research and technology transfer activities. The section includes student and researcher profiles, summaries of student activities, highlights of research projects, trips and other events. Below are links to the STC section of each e-news:


STC Sponsored Events

Current & Future Events

  • October 27-30, 2009
    4th International Conference on Women’s Issues in Transportation
    National Academy of Sciences, Irvine, California
    The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies is organizing the Fourth International Conference on Women’s Issues in Transportation. The aim is to add substantially to the research base on women’s transportation issues that has been developed over the past four decades, to take stock of its current status, and to identify future research needs. For more information, please visit the conference website.

Past Events

  • October 27-30, 2009
    4th International Conference on Women’s Issues in Transportation
    National Academy of Sciences, Irvine, California
    The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies is organizing the Fourth International Conference on Women’s Issues in Transportation. The aim is to add substantially to the research base on women’s transportation issues that has been developed over the past four decades, to take stock of its current status, and to identify future research needs. For more information, please visit the conference website.

  • February 20th, 2009, 1:30 – 3:00
    Dr. David Boyce
    STC Distinguished Speaker
    Adjunct Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University
    “Computing Challenges of the Static Traffic Assignment Problem: Past, Present and Future”
    1065 Kemper Hall
    For more information click here.

  • February 12th – 13th, 2009
    15th Annual UCTC Student Conference @ UC Riverside
    For more information click here

  • November 14th, 2008
    Dr. Carlos F. Daganzo
    STC Distinguished Speaker
    Director, Center for Future Urban Transportation, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
    Some Macroscopic Laws of Urban Traffic Dynamics: Analysis, Physical Evidence and Control Applications

  • November 6th & 7th, 2008
    The Second Annual California University Transportation Centers-California PATH Conference
    Tackling Congestion in an Era of Climate Change
    Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
    Conference website: http://www.uctc.net/utc-path
    Registration Page: http://www.techtransfer.berkeley.edu/otherconferences/utc-path

  • May 5-7, 2008
    Regionalism in California: The Road so Far…and Further Conference
    The UC Davis Center for the Study of Regional Change is hosting the first annual conference on regionalism in California, to be held at the UC Davis Alumni Center May 5-7, 2008. The conference will convene community, university, and government leaders to: assess regional approaches to problem-solving and policy change; deepen insight into the theory and practice of regionalism; strategize on how to achieve the goals of sustainability, equity, health, and vitality in California communities. To learn more, or to register for the conference, please visit this link

  • May 2, 2008
    Ellen Greenberg, AICP
    STC Visiting Practitioner
    "Sustainable Streets: Emerging Priorities and Practices"

  • May 1, 2008
    Advancing Women in Transportation (WTS) Student Reception
    The Sacramento chapter of WTS is hosting a reception to engage students, faculty, and working professionals regarding transportation careers and opportunities. The reception will be held at the UC Davis Alumni Center from 6-8pm. For more information, please contact Lauren Hilliard at L.Hilliard@fehrandpeers.com.

  • April 25, 2008
    Dr. Genevieve Giuliano
    STC Distinguished Speaker
    Sr. Assoc. Dean, Research and Technology
    Director, METRANS Transportation Center
    School of Policy, Planning and Development, USC

  • January 3 - March 9, 2008
    Greenstop Exhibit
    UC Davis Design Museum
    www.greenstopdesign.com
    Visionary designs for a self-sustainable rest stop: Highlights from an international design competition to select a design for a self sustainable and off-the-grid roadside rest area near Tipton along California Highway 99.

  • February 29, 2008
    Dr. Martin Wachs
    Director, Transportation, Space, and Technology, RAND Corporation
    STC Distinguished Speaker, February 29, 2008
    Linking Transportation, Development and Habitat Conservation: A Case Study of Riverside County
     
    Ellen Greenberg, AICP
    STC Visiting Practitioner
    January 25, 2008
    The Opposite of Traffic: A Work in Progress

  • Eleventh Biennial Conference on Transportation and Energy Policy
    http://www.its.ucdavis.edu/events/outreachevents/asilomar2007/index.php
    The Eleventh Biennial Conference on Transportation and Energy Policy investigated three broad strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation: reducing motorized travel, shifting to less energy intensive modes, and changing fuels and propulsion technologies. This invitation-only gathering drew a record 283 attendees, with representatives from industry, academia, international governments and NGO’s, and was held August 21-24, 2007 at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California.

  • International Conference on Ecology & Transportation (ICOET)
    www.icoet.net
    The ICOET is the primary forum for an international gathering of the foremost experts in the field of transportation development, related scientific study, and administrative processes that can enhance both the project development process and the ecological sustainability of transportation systems. Held every two years, ICOET drew more than 330 attendees to Little Rock, Arkansas, May 20-25, 2007. The theme was “Bridging the Gaps, Naturally.” The STC provided supplemental funding to the UC Davis Road Ecology Center, which worked with Caltrans’ Division of Environmental Analysis to enhance the state’s presence at the conference. In addition, the Road Ecology Center coordinated a networking workshop on climate change effects to natural systems that was so well-received that it prompted plans to highlight climate change prominently at the next conference, ICOET 2009.

  • Walk/Bike California Conference
    http://www.walkbikecalifornia.org
    The third biennial Walk/Bike California conference, hosted by the California Bicycle Coalition in association with California Walks, drew 400 attendees to the UC Davis campus September 11-14, 2007. The conference is regarded as one of the nation’s premier gatherings for government employees, transportation and planning professionals, and advocates dedicated to realizing the air quality, energy and public health benefits of walking and bicycling. It was fitting that the conference was held at UC Davis, where bicycles are the primary and preferred mode of transportation, and in David, the nation’s first city to institute bicycle lanes 40 years ago. Walk/Bike California was combined with the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals professional development seminar.

  • Warren Powell, Ph.D.
    Professor, Department of Operations and Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University; Director of the CASTLE Laboratory
    STC Distinguished Speaker, February, 23, 2007
    February, 23, 2007
    Approximate Dynamic Programming for High-Dimensional Resource Allocation Problems
    This talk explored the use of approximate dynamic programming, a powerful algorithmic technology that has proved useful in a variety of industrial applications. For example, the management of multiple, often complex, resources such as people, machines, medical supplies and energy, must be managed over time subject to various types of uncertainty. These problems produce state vectors with thousands or millions of dimensions, and state and action spaces that are effectively infinite. The talk described a strategy for solving these problems over time, under uncertainty, using the framework of approximate dynamic programming.

  • Jeffrey Melton, Ph.D.
    Outreach Director at the Recycled Materials Resource Center at University of New Hampshire
    STC Distinguished Speaker, June 1, 2007
    Recycled Materials and Sustainable Engineering in the Highway Environment
    This talk summarized the state of knowledge regarding the use of recycled materials in highway projects, citing past experiences – some successful and some not – as examples of the possibilities for sustainable engineering in the highway environment.