Faculty & Researchers

Blue highlights indicate ITS-Davis faculty who are affiliated with the Graduate Group in Transportation Technology and Policy (TTP).

Daniel Sperling

Director, ITS-Davis
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor, Environmental Science and Policy
Faculty director, Policy Institute for Energy,
  Environment and the Economy
  • Research Interests: Transportation technology assessment; Energy and environmental aspects of transportation; Transportation policy
Contact Info
1715 Tilia Street
(530) 752-7434
dsperling@ucdavis.edu

Patricia L. Mokhtarian

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Director for Education, ITS-Davis
Graduate Advisor, Transportation Technology and
  Policy Graduate Group
Director, Telecommunications and Travel Behavior
  Research Program
  • Research Interests: Impact of telecommunications technology on travel behavior; Land use and transportation interactions; Attitudes toward travel Congestion-response behavior; Travel time budgets; Transportation/air quality impacts of transportation demand management measures
Contact Info
3143 Ghausi Hall
(530) 752-7062
plmokhtarian@ucdavis.edu

John Harvey

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Chair, Transportation Technology and Policy
  Graduate Group
Principal Investigator, UC Pavement Research
  Center
  • Research Interests: Pavement engineering, including materials, construction, design, management, life cycle cost and environmental life cycle assessment
Contact Info
3153 Ghausi Hall
(530) 754-6409
jtharvey@ucdavis.edu

Susan L. Handy

Professor, Environmental Science and Policy
Interim Director, Urban Land Use and
  Transportation Center (ULTRANS)
  • Research Interests: Relationships between transportation and land use; The impact of land use on travel behavior; Factors influencing bicycling as a mode of travel; Strategies for reducing automobile dependence
Contact Info
2130 Wickson Hall
(530) 752-5878
slhandy@ucdavis.edu

Joan Ogden

Professor, Environmental Science and Policy
Director, Next Sustainable Transportation Energy
  Pathways (NextSTEPS)
  • Research Interests: Technical and economic assessment of new energy technologies; Modeling hydrogen infrastructure development
Contact Info
1715 Tilia Street
(530) 752-2768
jmogden@ucdavis.edu

Tom Turrentine

Director, Plug-in Hybrid & Electric Vehicle
  Research Center
Research Anthropologist
  • Research Interests: The role of travel and movement in the evolution of culture, society and lifestyle
Contact Info
1590 Tilia Street (West Village), Office 1105
(530) 752-1768
tturrentine@ucdavis.edu