TTP Faculty
Ralph C. Aldredge, III, Associate Professor, Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering; PhD, Princeton University, 1990. Combustion propulsion and emissions.
Rahman Azari, Lecturer, Statistics; PhD, George Washington University, 1975. Air pollution and transportation demand models.
Alison Berry, Professor, Environmental Horticulture/Plant Sciences; PhD, University of Massachusetts, 1983. Road ecology, nitrogen fixation.
Hemant Bhargava, Professor, Graduate School of Management; PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1990. Economics of network industries; optimization.
David Bunch, Graduate School of Management; Professor, PhD, Rice University, 1985; Management, Advanced travel demand and vehicle purchase models.
Andrew F. Burke, Research Engineer, ITS-Davis; PhD, Princeton University, 1967. Electric and hybrid vehicle design, batteries, ultracapacitors, fuel cells, and vehicle energy simulation models.
Dan Chang, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; PhD, California Institute of Technology, 1973. Production and control of air toxics and improved dispersion modeling tools.
Steven S. Cliff, Research Engineer, Applied Science; PhD, University of California, San Diego, 1998. Particle pollution from transportation sources including direct emission and re-entrained road dust sources.
Mark A. Delucchi, Research Ecologist, ITS-Davis; PhD, University of California, Davis, 1990. Social costs of motor vehicle use, fuel cycle analyses of air pollution, energy, and greenhouse gases, costs of electric-drive vehicles.
Harry Dwyer, Professor, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, PhD, Rutgers University, 1966; Chimera or overset meshes, particle and droplet combustion flows, emissions of particulate matter on nitrous oxide from diesel engines.
Paul Erickson, Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering; PhD, University of Florida, 2002; The emphasis of his research is on energy conversion and specifically in fuel cell technology. His applied studies focus on measured benefits of fuel cell vehicles and his fundamental research deals with heat and mass transfer enhancement in hydrogen production methods.
Yueyue Fan, Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, PhD, Univ. of Southern California, 2003. Her research focuses on network optimization and control, stochastic system modeling and analysis, risk management of transportation networks subject to seismic or other natural hazards, and applied mathematics and computation focusing on transportation systems.
Y. Hossein Farzin, Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics; PhD, Oxford University, England, 1982; Economics of air pollution, fossil fuels, GHG, int'l. trade and evelopment and relations to transportation.
Robert Feenstra, Professor, Economics; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981; industrial organization and international trade.
Mark Francis, Professor, Architecture/Environmental Design, MLA, Harvard University, 1975; Community and urban design.
Andrew A. Frank, Professor, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering; PhD, University of Southern California, 1965. Mechanical design, control systems, vehicle fuel economy, and emissions and energy storage devises for vehicles.
Joanna R. Groza, Professor, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science; PhD, Polytechnic Institute, Bucharest, Romania, 1973. Materials characterization and processing.
Susan Handy, Professor, Environmental Science & Policy; PhD., University of California, Berkeley, 1992. Her research focuses on the relationships between transportation and land use, including the impact of land use on travel behavior and the impact of transportation investments on land development patterns. In addition, her work is directed towards strategies for enhancing accessibility and reducing automobile dependence. She is known internationally for her work on the link between neighborhood design and the choice to walk. She is the director of the
John Harvey, Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering; PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1992. He has extensive experience with pavement management, design, construction and materials and has published over 50 technical papers and 60 technical reports. His research has recently been expanded to include analysis and simulation of the effects of urban freeway pavement rehabilitation activities on traffic flow.
Bryan Jenkins, Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, PhD, University of California, Davis, 1980; Engine emissions and health effects.
Alissa Kendall, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2007. Life cycle modeling of vehicle fuels, technologies and infrastructure; intermidal freight transportation, energy efficiency in transportation.
Ian Kennedy, Associate Dean, Personnel & Planning, Engr. Dean’s Office, and Professor, Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering; PhD, Sydney University, 1980. Engine emissions and related health effects.
Michael Kleeman, Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering; PhD, California Institute of Technology, 1998. Transportation-air quality interaction, emissions.
Chris Knittel, Assistant Professor, Economics; PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1999. Industrial organization, political economy, empirical finance, and applied econometrics.
Kenneth S. Kurani, Research Engineer, ITS-Davis; PhD, University of California, Davis, 1992. Travel behavior, consumer/user response to new transportation and information technology, research methodology.
C.-Y. Cynthia Lin, Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and Environmental Science & Policy; PhD, Harvard University, 2006. Environmental and natural resource economics, energy economics, industrial organization, applied microeconomics, structural econometrics, spatial analysis, fossil fuels, biofuels, renewable energy, natural resources, environmental regulation, and air quality. See http://cclin.ucdavis.edu for her faculty web page.
Mark Lubell, Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and Environmental Science & Policy; PhD, University of New York, Stony Brook, 1999. Transportation and land use planning, smart growth, sustainable communities, collaborative planning.
Marshall Miller, Associate Engineer, Institute of Transportation Studies; PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1988. Electric and hybrid vehicle propulsion systems, optimization.
Patricia L. Mokhtarian, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chair of the Graduate Group, and Associate Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies; PhD, Northwestern University, 1981. Her research interests include travel behavior modeling; travel demand forecasting; impacts of telecommunications on transportation, land use, and the environment; and transportation-land-use interactions. She is the founder of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Telecommunications and Travel Behavior, and is internationally known for her research in that area.
Debbie A. Niemeier, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering; PhD, University of Washington, 1994. Her main research focus is transportation-air quality modeling and policy, sustainability, and environmental justice. She has authored more than 150 papers and reports on transportation and environmental issues. She is currently serving on two National Academy of Sciences committees as well as several advisory boards, and she is an Associate Editor of JAWMA. She has won several academic advising and mentoring awards.
Joan Ogden, Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Policy; Co-Director of the Hydrogen Infrastructure Program. Her research centers on alternative fuels, hydrogen, fuel cells, energy infrastructure and understanding how a transition might occur from our current transportation system toward one based on use of hydrogen as an energy carrier.
Ahmet Palazoglu, Professor, Chemical & Materials Science Engineering; PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1984. Dynamic modeling and control of chemical process systems.
Bahram Ravani, Professor, Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering and co-director of the Advanced Highway Maintenance and Construction and Technology Center; PhD, Stanford University, 1982. His research interests include transport technology and the application of automation to transportation.
David M. Rocke, Professor, Graduate School of Management; PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1972; His research centers on statistical analysis of emissions and fuel composition. He is a frequent contributor to journals in statistics and environmental science.
Paul Sabatier, Professor, Environmental Science & Policy; PhD, University of Chicago, 1974; Policy implementation, bureaucratic decision-making, role of science in policymaking, air pollution policy.
Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn, Professor, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering; PhD, University of Arizona, 1984. Acoustics and noise control, reduction.
Seymour Schwartz, Professor Emeritus, Environmental Science & Policy; PhD, University of Southern California, 1970; Environmental policy analysis applied to issues of hazardous and solid waste management; applications of risk assessment to environmental decision making; dynamics of scientific controversy in environmental policy.
Daniel Sperling, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science & Policy, and Director of ITS-Davis; PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1982; His research centers on alternative fuels and electric-drive vehicles, technology policy, energy and air quality impacts of transportation, developing countries. He is Chair of the Transportation Research Board committee (National Research Council) on Alternative Fuels, has been appointed to two National Academy of Sciences committees (including "Transportation and a Sustainable Environment"), is a member of 10 research advisory boards, and author or co-author of 100 papers and reports on energy and environmental aspects of transportation, plus 5 books. He received the UC Davis award for Distinguished Public Service in 1996.
Pieter Stroeve, Professor, Chemical Engineering & Material Science, ScD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973; Batteries, fuel cells, surface modification of electrodes, in situ electrochemical AFM.
Tom Turrentine, Research Anthropologist, ITS-Davis; PhD, University of California, Davis, 1994; Lifestyle and travel behavior, survey design methodology, alternative fuels, electric vehicles.
Steven Velinsky, Professor, Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering; PhD, University of Illinois, 1981; Mechanical design, vehicle design and dynamics, solid mechanics, automated highway technology.
Anthony Wexler, Professor, Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Dept. of Land, Air & Water Resources; PhD, California Institute of Technology, 1990; Particle emissions from vehicles.
James Wilen, Professor, Agriculture & Resource Economics; PhD, University of California, Riverside, 1973. Micro decision analyses, urban structure, spatial analyses.
Sonia Yeh, Research Scientist, ITS-Davis; PhD, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA, 2001. Her research interests focus on energy and
environmental research, especially the role of technological change,
economic, and social changes on future energy demand, air emissions, and
environmental outcomes.
Michael Zhang, Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering; PhD, University of California, Irvine, 1995. His research centers on traffic flow models, traffic operations and control, analysis and design of urban transportation networks, intelligent transportation systems.