Integrating Relationship between Land Use and Transportation Planning
How can we integrate and strengthen the relationship between land use and transportation planning?
Defining and Measuring Livability – Implications for Land Use and Transportation Planning at Local Level
How do we define livability and what are the best metrics for measuring it? Are there different implications for land use and transportation planning at the local level and what…
Evaluation of Assumptions in Travel Forecast Models
Do we need to change old assumptions in our travel forecast models to account for rising gas prices (VMTs), economic variability, generational perspectives, and personal behaviors?
Balancing Sustainability with Affordability
How can transportation sustainability be balanced with affordability?
Potential Impacts of Bioenergy Production on the Safety of the Transportation Infrastructure
Development of a biofuels industry to meet the Federal mandates for 36 billion gallons of biofuels by the year 2022 will translate into greater harvest of biomass for energy purposes…
Accuracy of Traffic Forecasting Over Time in Environmental Studies
Analyze the accuracy of traffic forecasting over time, data that was used in environmental analysis/studies. For example, a 1980 traffic study for a particular project looked at the traffic numbers…
Effects of High Levels of Erosion Control: Mulch & Polyacrylamides (PAM) Use Over Bare Soil Not Actively Worked for 3 Days
Cost of this vs. ditch and basin treatments, maintenance.
Alternative Basin Designs for Small Bridge Projects and Other Environmentally Sensitive Areas (that would typically require 1.5-inch skimmers with small orifices)
Select several of these small bridges that are being let and re-design, install and monitor the discharge from the standard skimmer basin (x2) vs. a solid dam with a weir…
Promoting the Ability of Sensitive Reptiles and Amphibians to Cross Highway Corridors
More than 25 amphibians and reptiles are listed as threatened or endangered in California. Highways pose movement barriers for many these species. As California’s human population increases and climate changes…
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Landscape-Scale Water Quality Treatments
What would be the more effective landscape-scale water quality solution given limited financial resources; a relatively small aerial coverage with high efficiency BMPs (e.g. large ponds and sand filters) or…