UC Davis researchers and students participated in 25 meetings, paper and poster sessions at TRB in January 2008. They are listed below.
Transportation and Sustainability Committee (ADD40)
Daniel Sperling, co-chair
Session 404: Gender Differences in Travel Behavior and Attitudes
Susan L. Handy, University of California, Davis, presiding
Session 673: Low Carbon and Renewable Fuels: Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gases and Enhance Sustainability
Daniel Sperling, University of California, Davis, presiding
Overview of California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (P08-0089)
Alexander E. Farrell, University of California, Berkeley
Workshop 131: Transportation in Developing Urban Areas: Addressing Air Quality and Climate Change Issues
Lee Schipper, EMBARQ/World Resources Institute, presiding
Andreas Dietrich Kopp, World Bank, presiding
Roundtable Discussion (P08-0255)
Daniel Sperling, University of California, Davis
John Rogers, World Bank
Sylwia Klatka, ConVoco, Poland
German Correa, Comité de Ministros de Ciudad y Territorio, Chile
Workshop 141: Cutting Carbs in the Transportation Sector: International Efforts to Address Global Climate Change
Panel 3: Current and Needed Research (P08-1484)
Dan Sperling, University of California, Davis
Michael Q. Wang, Argonne National Laboratory
Todd Alexander Litman, Victoria Transport Policy Institute, Canada
Session 225: Does Land Use Matter? Role of Location in Influencing Travel Behavior
Paper: Is Alternative Development Undersupplied? Examination of Residential Preferences and Choices of Northern California Movers (08-0216)
Xinyu Cao, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Paper: Land Use, Attitudes, and Travel Behavior Relationships: A Cross-Sectional Structural Equations Model for Northern California (08-0706)
Giovanni Circella, University of California, Davis
Patricia L. Mokhtarian, University of California, Davis
Susan L. Handy, University of California, Davis
Session 319: Reauthorization and Climate Change: Federal, State, and Local Roles
Paper: America's Bottom-Up Climate Change Mitigation Policy (08-0694)
Nicholas Lutsey, University of California, Davis
Daniel Sperling, University of California, Davis
Poster Session 325: Freeway Operations
Paper: Estimating Time-Dependent Freeway Origin-Destination Demand with Different Data Coverage: Sensitivity Analysis (08-3062) - B11
H.M. Michael Zhang, University of California, Davis
Yu Nie, Northwestern University
Zhen Qian, University of California, Davis
Poster Session 338: Recent Research in Telecommunications and Travel
Paper: On Modeling the Choices of Work-Hour Arrangement, Location and Frequency of Telecommuting (08-2290) - E10
Prasad Vana, University of Texas at Austin
Chandra R. Bhat, University of Texas, Austin
Patricia L. Mokhtarian, University of California, Davis
Poster Session 409: Travel Behavior Research: Highlights from Around the World
Paper: Non-normality of Data in Travel Behavior Studies (08-1861) - L7
Shengyi Gao, University of California, Davis
Patricia L. Mokhtarian, University of California, Davis
Robert A. Johnston, University of California, Davis
Poster Session 459: Environment and Energy
Paper: Activity and Fuel Use of Interstate-Traveling Trucks Operating in California (08-0361) - B5
Nicholas Lutsey, University of California, Davis
Christie-Joy Brodrick, James Madison University
Paper: Using Dynamic Assignment to Improve Regional Mobile Emissions Estimation (08-0143) - B11
Song Bai, University of California, Davis
Yi-Chang Chiu, University of Arizona
Debbie Niemeier, University of California, Davis
Session 584: Effect of Information and Communication Technology on Commuting Travel and Social Networks
Paper: Overestimation Reduction in Forecasting Telecommuting as a Transportation Demand Management Policy (08-0966)
Gil Tal, University of California, Davis
Poster Session 604: Activity, Travel, and Time Use Behavior: The Future Has Arrived
Ram M. Pendyala, Arizona State University (UC Davis Alumnus), presiding
Paper: Structural Equation Models of Long-Distance Travel Attitudes, Behavior, and Desires (08-0374) - G8
David Ory, Parsons Brinckerhoff
Patricia L. Mokhtarian, University of California, Davis
Session 607: Children's Travel
Paper: Children’s Biking for Non-School Purposes: Getting to Soccer Games in Davis, CA (08-0968)
Gil Tal, University of California, Davis
Susan L. Handy, University of California, Davis
Session 622: Performance of Pipe and Buried Structures, Part 2 (Part 1, Session 478)
Paper: Damage to Deep Sewer System Installation (08-0702)
Daniel W. Wilson, University of California, Davis
Ross W. Boulanger, University of California, Davis
Curtiss W. Gilley, Terrain Engineering Inc
Session 638: Mobility Patterns and Travel Choices of Special Population Groups
Paper: A Case for Measuring Individuals' Access to Private-Vehicle Travel as a Matter of Degrees: Lessons from Focus Groups with Mexican Immigrants in California (08-0499)
Kristin Lovejoy, University of California, Davis
Susan L. Handy, University of California, Davis
Session 641: Recent Research on Pavement Noise Issues
Paper: Acoustical Absorption of Porous Pavement (08-2672)
James T. Nelson, Wilson, Ihrig & Associates
Erwin Kohler, Dynatest Consulting, Inc.
Bruce Rymer, California Department of Transportation
Aybike Ongel, University of California, Davis
Poster Session 646: Advances in Traffic Flow Theory and Applications
Paper: What Do Different Traffic Flow Models Mean for System-Optimal Dynamic Traffic Assignment in Many-to-One Network? (08-1775)
Wei Shen, University of California, Davis
H.M. Michael Zhang, University of California, Davis
Poster Session 652: Freight System, Marine, and Rail Freight Research
Paper: International Case Study: Planning Container Transportation Network Within Paper: Inland Water System of China's Yangtze River (08-1018)
Ruihua Lu, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Zheng Wan, University of California, Davis
Session 672: Facing Reality: Travel Behavior Implications of an Aging Population
Paper: Exploring Travel Behavior of Elderly Women in Rural and Small Urban North Dakota: An Ecological Modeling Approach (08-2113)
Jill Annette Hough, North Dakota State University
Xinyu Cao, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Susan L. Handy, University of California, Davis
Paper: Neighborhood Design and the Accessibility of the Elderly: Empirical Analysis in Northern California (08-0487)
Xinyu Cao, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Patricia L. Mokhtarian, University of California, Davis
Susan L. Handy, University of California, Davis
Session 701: Integrating Energy Planning and Transportation Revenue Policies
Paper: Consumer Response to Fuel Price Changes: Implications for Policy (P08-1056)
Daniel Sperling, University of California, Davis
Session 703: Learning from the Leaders: How Do the Best Bicycling Cities Do It?
Paper: Fifty Years of Bicycle Policy in Davis, California (08-1198)
Theodore J. Buehler, University of California, Davis
Paper: Factors Associated with Bicycle Ownership and Use: A Study of 6 Small U.S. Cities (08-1273)
Yan Xing, University of California, Davis
Susan L. Handy, University of California, Davis
Theodore J. Buehler, University of California, Davis
Session 734: New Perspectives on Sustainable Transportation
Paper: Indicators for Sustainable Transportation Planning (08-1103)
Robert A. Johnston, University of California, Davis
Session 755: Car-Following Behavior and Collision Risk
Paper: Finer-Resolution Cellular Automata Model for Intervehicle Communication Applications (08-1944)
Michael Zhang, University of California, Davis
Haining Du, University of California, Davis
Chen-Nee Chuah, University of California, Davis
Dipak Ghosal, University of California, Davis
Session 758: Innovative Asphalt Testing for Maintenance and Pavement Evaluation
Paper: Understanding Internal Structure Characteristics of Foamed Asphalt Mixes with Fracture Face Image Analyses (08-1331)
Pengcheng Fu, University of California Pavement Research Center
John Harvey, University of California Pavement Research Center
David Jones, University of California, Davis
You-Chen Chao, University of California, Davis