Winter 2008 - ITS-DAVIS WEEKLY SEMINAR SERIES |
Fridays 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
1065 Kemper Hall |
| Jan 11 | 1:30 pm to 2:05 pm: Zhen (Sean) Qian, ITS-Davis Graduate Researcher, “Estimating time-dependent freeway O-D demands with different data coverage: a sensitivity analysis 2:10 pm to 3:00 pm: Peng Wu, ITS-Davis Graduate Researcher, PhD Candidate in Civil Engineering, Exit Seminar, “Improving Car Scrappage Programs and Transportation Emissions Models with Vehicle Registration Data and GIS” |
| Jan 18 | No seminar (TRB 87th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 13–17, 2008) |
| Jan 25 | Ellen Greenberg, AICP, STC Visiting Practitioner “The Opposite of Traffic: A Work in Progress” |
| Feb 1 | No seminar (UCTC student conference, UCSB, January 31-February 2, 2008) |
| Feb 8 | Dr. Joan Ogden, Professor, Environmental Science and Policy, Associate Energy Policy Analyst, ITS Davis, STEPS Program, “Modeling the Introduction of Alternative Vehicle Technologies” |
| Feb 15 | Mr. Kurt Kornbluth, ITS-Davis Graduate Student, “Implementing Renewable Energy in the Galapagos Islands” |
| Feb 22 | Dr. Jennifer Dill, Associate Professor, Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning (USP), Director, Center for Transportation Studies, Assistant Director, Center for Urban Studies, Portland State University, “Where do people bicycle? The role of infrastructure in determining bicycling behavior” |
| Feb 29 | Dr. Martin Wachs, STC Distinguished Speaker, Director, Transportation, Space, and Technology, RAND Corporation, “Linking Transportation, Development and Habitat Conservation: A Case Study of Riverside County” |
| Mar 7 | Dr. Matthew Barth, Director, College of Engineering - Center for Environmental Research and Technology, Professor, Electrical Engineering, UC Riverside, “Traffic Congestion and its Impacts on Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Can ITS Help?” **Note: This seminar will be held in Kemper 1003** |
| Mar 14 | Dr. John Pucher, Rutgers University, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, “Cycling for Everyone: Lessons from the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany” |
| April 4 | Dr. Deb Niemeier, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Director, John Muir Institute of the Environment (JMIE), Director,UC Davis-Caltrans Air Quality Project, “Markets and Bazaars: Carbon Trading in the New World” |