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DOT awarding up to $435M for 34 University Transportation Centers

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The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding up to $435 million in grant awards for 34 University Transportation Centers (UTC). Consortium members: Arizona State University, Blinn Community College (TX), Michigan State University, Rutgers University and Texas A&M University. $4

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Carbon emissions from generating electricity for electric vehicles vary greatly across the individual US states

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51 Vermont 2.5 This analysis indicates that, for the two extreme states, the indirect emissions from electric vehicles powered by the electricity produced in West Virginia are, on average, 66 times greater than the indirect emissions from electric vehicles powered by the electricity produced in Vermont. 2 Kentucky 143.1 4 Hawaii 137.1

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UC Davis secures $20M federal grant renewal to lead the National Center for Sustainable Transportation

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The US Department of Transportation announced that the National Center for Sustainable Transportation ( NCST ), housed at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), would receive $20 million to lead a group of seven universities studying transportation effects on the environment. Earlier post.)

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USDOT awards $14M to UC Davis-led National Center for Sustainable Transportation

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The NCST is one of only five national transportation centers awarded under the University Transportation Centers program reauthorized by the federal Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act. It is the only national transportation center focused on environmental preservation and the only one in California.

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US COVID-19 mitigation efforts resulting in significant decline in traffic, emissions and fuel-tax revenues

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A new report from the Road Ecology Center at the University of California, Davis has found that total US vehicle miles traveled (VMT) at the county and state level have declined by 61% to 90% following the various government stay-at-home orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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USDA awards Penn State $10M to develop biomass supply chains for liquid transportation and aviation biofuels in Northeast

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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded Pennsylvania State University a five-year research grant valued at roughly $10 million to develop biomass supply chains for the production of liquid transportation and aviation biofuels in the Northeast.

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Self-Destructing Circuits and More Security Schemes

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It can be a starting point of some dangerous attacks,” Mao Li , a student in Mingoo Seok ’s lab at Columbia University, told engineers at ISSCC. And attackers may exploit these side-channels to gain access to sensitive information,” said Sirish Oruganti a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin.

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