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UC Davis, ITDP study suggests global shift to public transport, NMT and away from cars could save $100T through 2050 and cut GHGs

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Fulton, UC Davis, examines how major changes in urban transport investments worldwide would affect urban passenger transport emissions as well as mobility by different income groups. —Lew Fulton, co-director of NextSTEPS Program at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies. The study by Michael Replogle, ITDP, and Lewis M.

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SMUD announces regional initiative to develop a future mobility center in Sacramento

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The Mobility Center is envisioned as a public-private partnership of governmental entities, leading universities, electric utilities, technology and automotive companies, and venture capitalists. The Mobility Center will build on the ATOS model by providing a full life cycle suite of services from idea all the way to market.

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California makes first investments in $100M energy research & development program; also biogas and H2

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EPIC is a multi-year, research investment program focused on electricity-related innovations, finding new energy solutions and bringing clean energy ideas to the marketplace. Two of the awardees, Halotechnics and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), also received funds from the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E).

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Study: countries seeking to cut CO2 emissions must get a handle on city-level emissions

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Prof Dabo Guan, professor of climate change economics at the University of East Anglia (UEA), led the research, along with Dr Yuli Shan from UEA’s School of International Development. Everything practical that you would need to do to reduce emissions happens at a city level. Yuli Shan, Dabo Guan, Klaus Hubacek, Bo Zheng, Steven J.

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Researchers find consumers compensate for fuel-efficient car by buying bigger second vehicle; losing 60% of fuel economy savings

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An analysis by a team from the University of California, Davis, MIT and Yale suggests that households that buy a fuel-efficient vehicle tend to compensate for that purchase by buying a bigger, more powerful second vehicle. The idea that products can act as complements or substitutes is commonplace in economics.

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We’re the New Renewables

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Because generating heat is an inescapable part of our metabolic processes, researchers have been working to turn a lightbulb moment—the idea of harnessing body heat so all that thermal energy isn’t wasted—into a practical device that yields electric power. Diana Gamzina, founder and CEO of Davis, Calif.,

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The Women Behind ENIAC

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The Institute spoke with Kleiman, who teaches Internet technology and governance for lawyers at American University , in Washington, D.C., Planning for the event, which is scheduled to be held in Silicon Valley, is underway. Details are to be announced before the end of the year. about her mission to publicize the programmers’ contributions.

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