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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
Jin, Ling, Connor P. Jackson, Yuhan Wang, Qianmiao Chen, Tin Ho, C. Anna Spurlock, Aaron Brooker, Jake Holden, Jeff Gonder, Mohamed Amine Bouzaghrane, Bingrong Sun, Shivam Sharda, Venu Garikapati, Thomas P. Wenzel, and Juan Caicedo."Technology progress and clean vehicle policies on fleet turnover and equity: insights from household vehicle fleet micro-simulations with ATLAS."Transportation Planning and Technology
(2024) 1 - 24. DOI
Popovich, Natalie, Anjuli Jain Figueroa, Deborah Sunter, and Monisha Shah."Identifying disadvantaged communities in the United States: An energy-oriented mapping tool that aggregates environmental and socioeconomic burdens."Energy Research & Social Science
109 (2024) 103391. DOI
Xu, Xiaodan, Hung-Chia Yang, Kyungsoo Jeong, William Bui, Srinath Ravulaparthy, Haitam Laarabi, Zachary Needell, and C. Anna Spurlock."Teaching freight mode choice models new tricks using interpretable machine learning methods."Frontiers in Future Transportation
5 (2024). DOI
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