Transportation Sustainability Research at UC Berkeley
Transportation sustainability research seeks to develop transportation systems which tread as lightly as possible on finite resources and have the least harmful consequence for the natural and human environments, largely by taking fullest advantage of renewable resources for energy, manufacture and operations and restricting harmful emissions.
Transportation sustainability research at Berkeley covers the spectrum of the transportation endeavor. This program is discussed in the following three sections:
- energy, its extraction, transmission, processing, and disposal;
- emissions, their cause, how they interact with the larger environment, their consequences, and ways to control them; and
- infrastructure, the equipment and structures and the resources used in their manufacture, operation and end-of-life processes, and the combined interactions of these elements on natural and manmade settings as well as their implications for civic and political institutions in terms of cost-benefit analysis, land use and other elements.
Because these various components are so inter-related, much of the transportation sustainability research at Berkeley is done across disciplines and involves multiple fields.
Organizations where transportation sustainability research is being carried out.
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Last updated: June 12, 2006