Kenneth S. Kurani
Research Engineer, ITS-Davis
(916) 663-4332
access@foothill.net
Ph.D., 1992, University of California, Davis
Dr. Kurani is developing approaches and methods to evaluate user responses to new transportation and information technologies. This research includes activity-based approaches applied within quasi-experiments designed around interactive stated preference and reflexive survey methodologies. Further, he is exploring how activity-based approaches involve end-users in the process of technology development and policy formation, and ultimately how citizen/consumers can shape efforts to market social and systemic characteristics of transportation and communication networks such as energy efficiency, air quality, safety, and equity. His ongoing research includes the role of energy efficiency and air quality in household travel choices, continued work on household response to electric and hybrid electric vehicles, and the impact of travel on sensitive environments. The last includes a series of studies examining travel to, and in, Yosemite National Park.
| Publication Title | Date Released |
|---|---|
| Batteries for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs): Goals and the State of Technology circa 2008 | 5-2008 |
| Fuel Economy: What Drives Consumer Choice? | 4-2008 |
| Symbolism in California’s Early Market for Hybrid Electric Vehicles | 3-2008 |
| Symbolism and the Adoption of Fuel-Cell Vehicles | 6-2007 |
| Car buyers and fuel economy? | 2-2007 |
| Symbolism In Early Markets For Hybrid Electric Vehicles | 1-2007 |
| Quantifying the benefits of hybrid vehicles | 11-2006 |
| A Primer on Automobile Semiotics | 2-2006 |
| Effects of Vehicle Image in Gasoline-Hybrid Electric Vehicles | 4-2005 |
| Hydrogen and Fuel Cells - Refining the Message Initiating a National Dialogue and Educational Agenda | 4-2005 |
| The Price of Regulation | 10-2004 |
| Automobile Buyer Decisions about Fuel Economy and Fuel Efficiency | 9-2004 |
| Analysis of Auto Industry and Consumer Response to Regulations and Technological Change, and Customization of Consumer Response Models in Support of AB 1493 Rulemaking | 6-2004 |
| Analysis of Consumer Response to Automobile Regulation and Technological Change in Support of California Climate Change Rulemaking | 6-2004 |
| Prospecting the Future For Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle Markets | 10-2003 |
| Marketing Clean and Efficient Vehicles: A Review of Social Marketing and Social Science Approaches | 10-2002 |
| How We Can Have Safe, Convenient, Clean, Affordable, Pleasant Transportation Without Making People Drive Less or Give Up Suburban Living | 9-2002 |
| Transportation, Energy and Environmental Policy: Managing Transitions | 9-2001 |
| Marketing Clean and Efficient Vehicles: Workshop Proceedings | 3-2001 |
| Study of the Secondary Benefits of the ZEV Mandate | 8-2000 |
| Progress in Electric Vehicle Technology and Electric Vehicles from 1990 to 2000: The Role of California's Zero Emission Vehicle Production Requirement | 8-2000 |
| Employee Travel in Yosemite National Park | 5-2000 |
| A Study of Visitor Bicycle Use in Yosemite Valley | 4-2000 |
| Yosemite Area Traveler Information System Changeable Message Sign and Highway Advisory Radio July 1998 Field Test Report | 9-1999 |
| Evaluation of the TransCal Field Operational Test: An Advanced Traveler Information System in California and Nevada | 12-1998 |
| ITS Information and Services to Enhance the Mobility of Disabled Travelers | 10-1997 |
| Yosemite Area Traveler Information (YATI) System User, Institutional and System Performance Evaluations for the July 1996 to June 1997 Field Operational Test | 6-1997 |
| Further Implementation of a Rural ATIS: Observations on the Continued Deployment of YATI | 6-1997 |
| Potential of ITS Services and Technologies to Enhance Mobility of Elderly and Disabled Travelers: Initial Survey Results from Sacramento Area | 1-1997 |
| Demand for Electric Vehicles by Hybrid Households | 10-1996 |
| Innovative Transportation Systems and Services for the Elderly and the Disabled: A Prototype Experiment | 9-1996 |
| Recent Developments in the Prospects for Modeling Household Activity Schedules | 8-1996 |
| Post-Implementation Evaluation Plan For The Yosemite Area Traveler Information (YATI) System | 7-1996 |
| The Marketability of Electric Vehicles: Battery Performance and Consumer Demand for Driving Range | 1-1996 |
| The Household Market for Electric Vehicles: Testing the Hybrid Household Hypothesis – A Reflexively Designed Survey of New-car-buying, Multi-vehicle California Households | 5-1995 |
| Household Markets For Neighborhood Electric Vehicles In California | 5-1995 |
| Infrastructure Planning and Development for Neighborhood Electric Vehicles | 11-1994 |
| Prospects for Neighborhood Electric Vehicles in the USA | 9-1994 |
| Segmentation and Size of the Market for Battery Powered and Hybrid Electric Vehicles in California: A Diary Based Survey of New Car Buyers in California | 9-1994 |
| Incentive Policies for Neighborhood Electric Vehicles | 8-1994 |
| Regulatory Policy Development for Neighborhood Electric Vehicles | 6-1994 |
| Proceedings of the Neighborhood Electric Vehicle Workshop: A Policy, Technology, and Research Conference | 6-1994 |
| Electric Vehicle Owners: Tests of Assumptions and Lessons on Future Behavior from 100 Electric Vehicle Owners in California | 1-1994 |
| Evaluation of Hypothetical Early Market Segments' Response to Electric Vehicles: Results of Test Drive Clinics and Focus Groups | 7-1993 |
| Consumer Demand for Automated Private Travel: Extrapolations from Vanpool User Experiences | 11-1992 |
| Home Recharging and the Household Electric Vehicle Market: A Near-Term Constraints Analysis | 9-1992 |
| Household Decision Behavior and Demand for Limited Range Vehicles: Results of PIREG, a Diary Based, Interview Game for Evaluation of the Electric Vehicle Market | 7-1992 |
| Market Potential of Electric and Natural Gas Vehicles | 4-1992 |
| Application of a Behavioral Market Segmentation Theory to New Transportation Fuels in New Zealand | 2-1992 |
| A Study of Adaptive and Optimizing Behavior for Electric Vehicles Based on Interactive Simulation Games and Revealed Behavior of Electric Vehicle Owners | 1-1992 |
| New Transportation Fuels in New Zealand: Innovation, Social Choice and Utility | 8-1991 |