Hanjiro Ambrose receives UC Davis CTECH Ph.D. Dissertation Award
Hanjiro Ambrose was recently granted the UC Davis CTECH Ph.D. Dissertation Award. His dissertation is titled “Life Cycle Modelling of Technologies and Strategies for Pollution Abatement: A Study of Heavy Duty Vehicle Systems”. His research in the Kendall Group...
CTECH Talk at UTEP
Kelvin Cheu discusses LEED and SmartCode On June 7, 2018, Dr. Kelvin Cheu gave a talk on LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) and SmartCode to 16 UTEP students and 16 University of Piura, Peru students, as part of UTEP’s summer sustainable...
“Missing Link”
Professor Michael Zhang was quoted in this article from the May 2018 issue of Autonomous Vehicle International. Text below was adapted from the article by David Smith. Find the article in it’s original context here. [pdf] AVs could befenit from V2X—but there is...
UC Davis Hosts RoboPlay Competition for K-12 Students
The 2018 C-STEM Center RoboPlay Challenge Competition for elementary, middle and high school students was held Saturday, May 19, at the ARC Pavilion, University of California, Davis, and at University High School in Irvine, California. The center also is announcing...
Cornell systems researchers publish study on climate-adaptive transportation planning
“Climate-adaptive planning for the long-term resilience of transportation energy infrastructure” Cornell systems researchers Arash Beheshtian, Kieran Donaghy, Richard Geddes, and H. Oliver Gao published a recent study that provides important policy...
New study reveals novel potential of competitive on-demand service systems
Professor H. Oliver Gao Dr. Hamid R. Sayarshad “A scalable non-myopic dynamic dial-a-ride and pricing problem for competitive on-demand mobility systems” Post-doctoral Associate Hamid R. Sayarshad and Professor H. Oliver Gao’s study reveals novel potential...
Juan Carlos Martínez Mori awarded Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship
CTECH graduate research assistant Juan Carlos Martínez Mori has been awarded a Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship (DDETFP). Carlos is a first year PhD student in Systems, working with CTECH co-PI Prof. Samitha Samaranayake. His research interests are in...
Smart inventory and delivery network between suppliers and retailers
Prof. H. Oliver Gao Dr. Hamid R. Sayarshad In a paper recently published in the Journal of Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. Post-doc Hamid R. Sayarshad and Professor H. Oliver Gao are the first to reveal novel potential for energy...
CTECH Co-PI Professor Zhang establishes USF Chapter of the Women in Transportation Society
CTECH co-PI Professor Yu Zhang has established a USF Chapter of the Women in Transportation Society. Their first seminar is scheduled for October 27, 2017. WTS International seeks to promote lifelong careers in transportation—attracting, retaining, and advancing women...
2017 Ithaca Transportation Camp takes place on Cornell Campus
“Transportation Camp” for the year 2017 took place on Saturday June 17 at Klarman Hall on the Cornell University Campus. The format of transportation camp is that participants bring themes for the sessions that they wish to lead, and then the organizers...