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
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
Spurlock, C. Anna, Mohamed Amine Bouzaghrane, Aaron Brooker, Juan Caicedo, Jeff Gonder, Jake Holden, Kyungsoo Jeong, Ling Jin, Haitam Laarabi, Zachary Needell, Cristian Poliziani, Shivam Sharda, Bingrong Sun, Paul Waddell, Yuhan Wang, Rashid Waraich, Thomas P. Wenzel, and Xiaodan Xu."Behavior, Energy, Autonomy & Mobility Comprehensive Regional Evaluator: Overview, calibration and validation summary of an agent-based integrated regional transportation modeling workflow."
(2024).