Resilient and Innovative Mobility Initiative (current project)
Researcher: Dan Coffee
With funding from the state legislature for UCs, the UCLA Institute for Transportation & LCI are researching various questions relating to transportation decarbonization in California. LCI’s current focus is analyzing the economic and labor impacts of hydrogen infrastructure buildout to support clean transportation. Other subjects to cover include zero-emissions vehicles, land use, infrastructure, hydrogen fuel, vehicle policy, and environmental justice implications.
Researchers: Dan Coffee, Aditya Voleti, Joshua Segui, Allison Yang, J.R. DeShazo, and Weilong (David) Kong
This technical report reviews the underlying analysis, data, and economic input/output modeling that supported our conclusions in the 2021 report Driving California’s Transportation Emissions to Zero. The researchers find that transportation decarbonization and the widespread adoption of zero-emission vehicles will spur the creation of new multi-billion dollar industries, result in tens of billions of dollars in annual consumer savings, and create hundreds of thousands of full time-equivalent jobs, while also driving significant contractions in some industries focused on servicing fossil fuel-burning vehicles.
Regional and Local PEV Planning
LCI conducts planning studies to support regional and local readiness for PEVs. The analysis informs strategic investments in charging infrastructure and identifies future priorities.
(2021 report)
Researchers: James Di Filippo, Jason Karpman, J.R. DeShazo, and Gregory Pierce
Funder: South Coast Air Quality Management District – Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC)
(2019 analysis part of the Transportation Electrification Blueprint for the County of L.A.)
Researchers: James Di Filippo, Bo Liu, and J.R. DeShazo
Maximizing public benefits of transportation electrification, as well as managing grid impacts (both positive and negative) requires careful infrastructure planning. Researchers from LCI collaborated with Los Angeles County Energy and Environmental Services and others to produce the County of Los Angeles Transportation Electrification Blueprint. The blueprint is focused on infrastructure planning to support the charging of electric vehicles, and the potential impacts that widespread transportation electrification will have on electrical distribution infrastructure in LA County.
LCI researchers contributed to the development of the blueprint by estimating the energy demands of: 1) battery electric transit buses, 2) battery electric heavy-duty drayage (port) trucks, and 3) electric commuter vehicles at workplaces, in order to meet goals established at a state, regional, and local level. The California Energy Commission supported this blueprint project.
(2017 report)
Authors: Jason Karpman, Sam Krumholz, Norman Wong, and J.R. DeShazo
Funder: Office of Sustainability and the Environment, City of Santa Monica
(2017 atlas)
Authors: Jason Karpman, Sam Krumholz, Norman Wong, and J.R. DeShazo
Funder: Southern California Association of Governments, as part of agreement sponsored by the California Energy Commission
(2013 plan)
Authors: J.R. DeShazo and Ayala Ben-Yehuda
Funder: Southern California Association of Governments, as part of agreement sponsored by the California Energy Commission
(2013 plan)
Authors: J.R. DeShazo, Ayala Ben-Yehuda, Norman Wong and Alex Turek
Funder: Southern California Association of Governments, as part of agreement sponsored by the California Energy Commission
(2013 plan)
Authors: J.R. DeShazo, Ayala Ben-Yehuda, Norman Wong and Alex Turek
Funder: Southern California Association of Governments, as part of agreement sponsored by the California Energy Commission
PEV Charging for Residents of Multi-unit Dwellings
Residents of apartments and other multi-unit dwellings have limited access to convenient PEV charging, either onsite or nearby, impeding PEV adoption for this considerable fraction of California’s population. LCI’s research identifies opportunities, challenges, and options to overcome PEV charging barriers for these residents.
(2021 report)
Researchers: James Di Filippo and J.R. DeShazo
Funder: EVgo Services
(2017 report)
Authors: Jason Karpman, Norman Wong, and J.R. DeShazo
Funder: Southern California Association of Governments, as part of agreement sponsored by the California Energy Commission
(2016 report)
Authors: Alex Turek and J.R. DeShazo
Funder: California Energy Commission
(2013 report)
Authors: Brett Williams and J.R. DeShazo
Funder: South Coast Air Quality Management District
(2012 report)
Authors: Judith Balmin, Greg Bonett, and Megan Kirkeby
Supporter: UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation’s Foundation
PEV Charging at Workplaces
LCI assesses the financial and geographic opportunities to support strategic investments in PEV charging infrastructure at workplaces.
(2017 report)
Authors: James Di Filippo, Mahito Moriyama, Toru Terai, Kelly Trumbull, and Jiahui Zhang
Supporter: UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation’s Foundation
(2013 report)
Authors: Brett Williams and J.R. DeShazo
Supporter: UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation’s Foundation
(2012 report)
Authors: Daniel Chang, Daniel Erstad, Ellen Lin, Alicia Rice, An-An Tsao
Supporter: UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation’s Foundation
