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A new study by Michael Sivak, research professor at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), found that in 2011, the peak probability of buying a new vehicle per driver in the US was among those between 55 and 64 years of age—a shift from four years earlier, when that peaked with the 35-to-44-year-old age group.

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The age composition of US drivers has changed substantially between 1983 and 2008, according to a new study by University of Michigan researchers Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle, published in the journal Traffic Injury Prevention. Changes in percentage of teenagers with driver’s licenses, 1983 to 2008. Data: Sivak and Schoettle.

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MAY 15, 2018

This is the case because women are more likely to purchase smaller, safer, and more-fuel efficient vehicles; women drive less; and women tend to have a lower fatality rate per distance driven. Women with a driver’s license as a percentage of all persons with a driver’s license. In 2016, women constituted 50.6% of all US drivers.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

At its core, the project is designed to be “future-proofed” and to evolve to meet transportation goals, beginning with connected buses and shared mobility vehicles such as vans and shuttles, and expanding to additional types of CAVs such as freight and personal vehicles.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

—John Reilly, co-director of the Joint Program and co-author Sebastian Rausch, now at ETH Zurich University, calculated the impact a carbon tax starting at $20 per ton would have using a national economic model that details energy, taxes and household incomes. They found that the tax would raise $1.5

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APRIL 9, 2018

A new study by researchers at Leiden University in The Netherlands, with colleagues at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, shows that climate policies can strongly increase metal demand. mostly as a result of population and GDP growth.

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DECEMBER 29, 2014

The global economic recession of 2008—which severely depressed light-duty vehicle sales—resulted in an increase in the age of the light-duty vehicle fleet in the US that likely slowed the rate of decrease of fleet average emissions, according to a study by Gary Bishop and Donald Stedman at the University of Denver.

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JULY 15, 2009

Ontario (Canada) Premier Dalton McGuinty announced several measures in support of that goal, including rebates of between C$4,000 and C$10,000 (US$3,575 to US$8,938) for plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles purchased after 1 July 2010, based on the vehicle’s battery capacity. Electric vehicles are the way to go in Ontario.

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MAY 30, 2011

Research from the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Davis (ITS-Davis) suggests it will take more than a reasonable price and good information to get consumers to make more sustainable transportation choices, such as the purchase of a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). Social influence does matter.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

Researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Texas A&M Transportation Institute and Columbia University surveyed more than 1,200 people in Austin, Texas, to examine how their habits changed after Uber and Lyft pulled drivers out of the city due to a local law change.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The massive upsurge in e-bikes in the country marks “ the single largest adoption of alternative fuel vehicles in history, with over 100 million vehicles purchased in the past decade, more than all other countries combined. ”. Emission factors for EVs and CVs (g person-km ?1 Comparing averages for e-bikes and buses, based on PM 2.5

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MAY 10, 2016

Similarly, Tier 1 companies, such as Continental, are designing and manufacturing batteries and engines that can better accommodate small, personal electric vehicles. Over time, we expect greater adoption through fleet purchases including Uber and Lyft. —Susan Beardslee.

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APRIL 30, 2012

The environment will limit the collection and retention of personally identifiable information to the minimum necessary to support stakeholder and operational needs. However, this stated principle does not preclude mandatory universally applicable taxes or fees to finance the system, according to DOT. Technical Functionality.

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APRIL 9, 2010

Shortly after releasing the Roadmap, the Coalition commissioned the Interindustry Forecasting Project at the University of Maryland and Keybridge Research to study the long-term economic effects of their policy proposals. This comparative simulation was carried out over the period 2010 to 2030. Oil Imports. million barrels per day by 2030.

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JULY 14, 2009

The high rate of adoption is driven by the low purchase price and operating costs of electric cars with switchable batteries. In Becker’s analysis, eliminating the need for the consumer to purchase the large battery pack upfront makes the purchase price of an electric car competitive with that of an internal combustion vehicle.

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OCTOBER 31, 2019

According to the 2015 Residential Energy Consumption Survey , the additional expenditure for the electricity to power air handlers used with natural-gas furnaces averages about 9% of the expenditure for the natural gas used to fuel those furnaces (personal communication from James Berry, the U.S. Energy Information Administration).

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JANUARY 2, 2013

Zipcar now has more than 760,000 members (“Zipsters”), with a market-leading presence in 20 major metropolitan areas in the United States, Canada and Europe, and fleet positioned at more than 300 college and university campuses.

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JULY 20, 2010

By the end of 2010 and continuing through 2011, Honda will roll out a battery-electric vehicle demonstration program in the US with participants, including Stanford University, Google Inc. BEV and PHEV demonstration programs will begin later this year in the US. and the City of Torrance, Calif. Plug-in hybrid.

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JUNE 13, 2011

The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users yet conducted, including more than 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

The comprehensive metric measures consumer readiness for AV technology in several categories: personal vehicles; commercial vehicles; public transit; riding if unable to drive due to age or injury; sharing the road with other AVs; and consumer purchase intent. This year, the study has been redesigned as an annual offering from J.D.

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JULY 31, 2015

eMERGE had seven cooperation partners: Daimler AG; Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS); PTV AG; RWE Effizienz GmbH; RWTH Aachen University (Chair of Management Accounting); TU Berlin (Faculty of Economic and Infrastructure Policy/WIP); and the University of Siegen (Chair of Marketing).

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MARCH 21, 2016

By the end of this decade, GM sees potential for up to 40% of car buyers in China to finance their purchases, compared to about 30% in 2015. At the same time, GM is executing a plan to capitalize on the future of personal mobility using tools such as connectivity, ridesharing, car sharing and autonomous driving. Earlier post.).

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JULY 30, 2024

This sponsored article is brought to you by Purdue University. Purdue University is taking charge, leading semiconductor technology and workforce development in the U.S. As early as Spring 2022, Purdue University became the first top engineering school to offer an online Master’s Degree in Microelectronics and Semiconductors. “It

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AUGUST 7, 2024

Her husband is a computer science professor at the University of Technology, Jamaica , in Kingston. Brown also was integral in the promotion and follow-up activities for the One IEEE event held in January at the University of Technology, Jamaica. Brown is an accountant and human resources professional.

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APRIL 29, 2025

An expert in developing technology to transmit microwave and millimeter-wave signals over long distances using optical fibers, she left a tenured position at the University of Melbourne , in Parkville, Australia, to join a venture-backed U.S. in electrical engineering in 1992 from the University of Queensland in Brisbane.

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APRIL 22, 2021

A team of transportation and policy experts from the University of California released a report to the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) outlining policy options to significantly reduce transportation-related fossil fuel demand and emissions. —“Driving California’s Transportation Emissions to Zero”.

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APRIL 15, 2014

Plus, they no longer have to purchase battery rechargers or dedicate space for recharging. Instead, companies can simply purchase and store hydrogen tanks as needed. If we can provide a storage system that meets the target refueling time at, say, 500 psi, companies can get a break in the up-front costs.

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JULY 18, 2024

My university engaged in a pilot to use several e-learning modules available on the ILN in several undergraduate and graduate engineering courses. The outcome was so positive that we purchased it.” “The ILN provides a one-stop shop for the technical educational product search.

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APRIL 20, 2025

Eight years ago, Samueli, then a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), who had been pushing the state of the art of digital broadband communications for more than a decade, joined with his Ph.D. But the opportunity to be a professor at one of the top universities in the world was too good to pass up.

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MARCH 5, 2025

Supernova explosions, the catastrophic self-destruction of certain types of worn-out stars, are intimately tied to life on Earth because they are the birthplaces of heavy elements across the universe. Most of the iron in our blood and the sulfur in our amino acids originated in stars that detonated billions of years ago.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The competition challenged university students around the world to use their engineering skills to help with accessibility issues. EPICS is a grant-based program for IEEE Educational Activities that funds service learning projects for university and high school students.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

Additionally, with the input of the University of Tennessee, The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI), and the emerging composites corridor, I believe the Knoxville area will become the world hub for carbon fiber in the future. On a personal note, the bike riding in this area is incredible.

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MARCH 18, 2025

On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we have actually used or purchased with our own meagre income. As always, some definitions wont go astray to start this post.

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Furthermore, industry shifts in automotive design has made cars more tech heavy and not in ways that are universally appealing. But the relevant features require even more invasive technologies to function and drive-by-wire controls that sap a vehicle of its personality. The big question is where the industry goes from here.

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MAY 22, 2024

Arthur Erickson Occupation: Aerospace engineer and founder, Hylio Location: Houston Education: Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, specializing in aeronautics, from the University of Texas at Austin Erickson founded Hylio with classmates while they were attending the University of Texas at Austin. It was pretty exciting,” he says. “It

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Rapid economic growth, growing mobility, increasing purchasing power, and rising demand for goods have made China one of the fastest growing—and one of the largest—auto markets in the world. Data gathering for the Beijing study was completed in 2008. Tianjin is the third-largest city in China, behind Beijing and Shanghai.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Further supporting these findings, the University of Auckland analyzed over 36,000 two-car collisions spanning from 1998 to 2012. Car purchasers should deliberate their color choice, balancing personal taste with safety implications. percent of these accidents.

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