About ULTRANS
As the world’s cities struggle to enhance economic development, social equity, and environmental quality while meeting the transportation demands of a growing population, they sorely need modeling tools that integrate transportation and land use. The newly launched UC Davis Urban Land Use and Transportation Center (ULTRANS) aims to improve understanding of the relationship between transport and land use, and to develop, test, and deploy tools that can be used for planning and policy. The initial focus will be development of policies and tools to be used in California to support state requirements for reduced greenhouse gas emissions in metropolitan areas. It will build upon internationally recognized modeling work at ITS-Davis and its affiliated Information Center for the Environment (ICE), and will include collaborations with ITS-Berkeley and other campuses.
Under the initial leadership of Mike McCoy (co-director of ICE), with Susan Handy, Robert Johnston, Mark Lubell, Patricia Mokhtarian, Deborah Salon, and Susan Shaheen, ULTRANS will dedicate itself to advancing understanding of all factors that influence and result from human travel and location choices. It will encompass research, education, and outreach components.
ULTRANS is administered by the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis) in affiliation with the UC Davis Information Center for the Environment (ICE) and in partnership with researchers at UC Berkeley.
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