Sustainable Transportation Initiative
Combining world-class talent, facilities, and leadership at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and University of California, Berkeley to deliver foundational scientific research and robust engineering solutions addressing the nation’s mobility system needs.
Learn About Our Research on Battery-Electric Trains
Berkeley Lab study shows how battery-electric trains can deliver environmental justice, cost-savings, and resilience to the U.S.
Read the news release: eta.lbl.gov/news/big-batteries-wheels-can-deliver-zero
Recent Publications
Kersey, Jessica, Natalie Popovich, and Amol A. Phadke."Rapid battery cost declines accelerate the prospects of all-electric interregional container shipping."Nature Energy
7.7 (2022) 664 - 674. DOI
Jin, Ling, Alina Azar, Caitlin Brown, Bingrong Sun, Venu Garikapati, Srinath Ravulaparthy, Qianmiao Chen, Alex Sim, Kesheng Wu, Tin Ho, Thomas P. Wenzel, and C. Anna Spurlock."What Makes You Hold on to That Old Car? Joint Insights from Machine Learning and Multinomial Logit on Vehicle-level Transaction Decisions."Frontiers in Future Transportation - Connected Mobility and Automation
(2022). DOI
Lazar, Alina, Ling Jin, Caitlin Brown, C. Anna Spurlock, Alex Sim, and Kesheng Wu."Performance of the Gold Standard and Machine Learning in Predicting Vehicle Transactions."2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
(2021). DOI