R E S E A R C H   P R O J E C T S

PATRICIA LYON MOKHTARIAN

This is a list of projects and studies that the program has undertaken. To look at a more detailed description of a project please click on the highlighted links or click here to go directly to the descriptions.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

  • DaimlerChrysler.  Determinants of Travel Liking:  Who has a Positive Utility for Travel? September 2002 - August 2003.
     

  • California Department of Transportation.  Alternative Fleet Scenarios.  July 2002 – June 2004.
     

  • U. S. Department of Transportation Region Nine Transportation Center.  An Input/Output Analysis of the Re­la­tionships between Communications and Travel for Industry.  August 2002 - July 2003.
     

  • U. S. Department of Transportation Region Nine Transportation Center.  Telecommuting over the Long Term:  Patterns of Engagement and Impacts on Residential Location.  August 2001 - July 2002.
     

  • California Energy Commission.  An Aggregate Evaluation of the Impact of Teleworking on Vehicle-Miles Traveled.  June - December 2001.
     

  • U. S. Department of Transportation Region Nine Transportation Center.  The Impact of Attitudes toward Mobility, Adoption of Previous Strategies, and Demographic Characteristics on Responses to Congestion.  August 2000 - July 2001.
     

  • Daimler-Benz.  Is there a Drive to Travel?  December 1998 - December 2000.
     

  • Daimler-Benz.  Modeling Mobility Budgets.  December 1998 - September 1999.
     

  • Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW).  Long-Term Effects of Telecommuting on Travel Behavior and Residential Location.  August 1998 - March 1999.
     

  • National Science Foundation Integrated Graduate Education Research and Training (IGERT) grant. October 1998 - September 2003.
     

  • U. S. Department of Transportation Region Nine Transportation Center.  Is Accessibility the Solution for All?  Segmenting the Market for Mobility and Accessibility Policies.  August 1997 - July 1999.
     

  • Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways.  Beyond Telecommuting:  The Travel/Com­muni­ca­tions Impacts of Advanced Telecommunications Services.  September 1996 - July 1997.
     

  • Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways.  Is there a Case for Public Investment in Telecommuting?  The Cost/Benefit Analysis.  (Co-PI with Debbie Niemeier).  September 1996 - July 1997.
     

  • U. S. Department of Transportation Region Nine Transportation Center.  Travelers' Responses to Congestion.  August 1995 - July 1996.
     

  • U. S. Department of Transportation Region Nine Transportation Center.  An Empirical Analysis of the Travel Behavior of Telecommuters and Home-Based Business Owners.  August 1994 - July 1995.
     

  • Washington State Energy Office.  Puget Sound Telecommuting Demonstration Transportation Emissions Analysis.  June 1994. 
     

  • U. S. Department of Transportation Region Nine Transportation Center.  Market Segmentation of the Demand for Telecommuting.  August 1993 - July 1994.
     

  • California Energy Commission.  Present Status and Future Directions of Telecommuting in Cali­for­nia.  November 1992 - September 1993.
     

  • California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).  Residential Area-Based Telecommuting Work Centers.  July 1992 - January 1997.
     

  • California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).  Davis Community Network Demon­stra­tion Project.  July 1992 - June 1995.
     

  • U. S. Department of Transportation Region Nine Transportation Center.  Modeling the Choice to Telecommute.  August 1991 - July 1993.

  

OTHER RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).  Residential Location Modeling. July 2002-June 2004 (co-PI with Prof. Susan Handy, DESP).
     

  • National Science Foundation.  Decentralized Decision-Making in Complex Network Systems. 2000-2003 (in collaboration with Prof. Anna Nagurney of University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Prof. June Dong of State University of New York, Oswego).
     

  • California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).  Statistical Approaches to the Study of Causes and Concomitants of Traffic Generation:  Reexamining and Expanding upon Recent Work.  March - June 1999 (in collaboration with F. Samaniego, R. Azari, R. Shumway, and N. Willits).
     

  • California Air Resources Board.  Development of a Land Use/Travel Model.  $151,805, November 1991 - March 1993 (co-PI with R. Kitamura).
     

  • U. S. Department of Transportation Region Nine Transportation Center.  Impact of Tele­com­muting on Travel:  Accessibility Implication of Working at Home.  $51,866, August 1990 -July 1991 (co-PI with R. Kitamura, P. P. Jovanis, and D. S. Bunch).
     

  • University of California Energy Research Group.  Telecommuting, Energy and Air Quality.  $23,000, July 1990 - June 1991 (co-PI with R. Kitamura and P. P. Jovanis).