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March 11, 2024

Ziad Yassine from the University of California, Berkeley Transportation Sustainability Research Center will present during the Carsharing Association "Electrifying your carsharing fleet!" webinar. Ziad will share his research findings from a project called "Can Electric Vehicle Carsharing Bridge the Green Divide?" on the environmental impacts of the BlueLA carsharing program.

February 20, 2024

Business Insider

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Susan Shaheen, UC Berkeley Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director discusses electric vertical-takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and advanced air mobility (AAM) with Business Insider.

November 29, 2023

Politico

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Susan Shaheen, UC Berkeley Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director discusses shared automated vehicles with Polictico.

November 14, 2023

electrek

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The UC Berkeley Transportation Sustainability Research Center conducts an evaluation of the BMW USA ChargeForward program.

September 19, 2023

UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

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Susan Shaheen, co-director of UC Berkeley's Transportation Sustainability Research Center, discusses automated vehicles with the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society.

September 5, 2023

San Francisco Chronicle

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Timothy Lipman, UC Berkeley Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director discusses electric vehicle technology with the San Francisco Chronicle.

August 7, 2023

Popular Science

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Susan Shaheen, UC Berkeley Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director discusses scooter sharing's emission impacts with Popular Science.

June 5, 2023

UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies

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Congratulations to Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC) researchers Adam Cohen and Dr. Elliot Martin on earning spot Staff Appreciation and Recognition Awards!

February 6, 2023

San Francisco Examiner

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Transportation Sustainability Researcher Center Co-Director Susan Shaheen discusses automated vehicle adoption in Arizona and California. 

Link to full article here

February 13, 2022

Viewpoints Radio

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Susan Shaheen, the Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director, talks with Viewpoints Radio about the United States' current infrastructure and what more needs to be done to promote greater citizen mobility with bikes, scooters, and other non-motor modes of transportation.

February 2, 2022

The Institute of Engineering and Technology

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Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director Susan Shaheen publishes a book that provides information on how to shape future shared vehicle systems. 

Click here for further information. 

January 21, 2022

California Transportation Foundation

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The California Transportation Foundation names Susan Shaheen, co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center, to the 2022 Board of Directors. 

December 1, 2021

Transfers Magazine

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September 23, 2021

StreetsBlog Cal

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Research teams at the University of California Davis and Berkeley campuses have  developed a menu of options to set California on a path toward automated vehicle safety, social equity, mobility, and sustainability.

August 26, 2021

July 1, 2021

Wunder Mobility

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Wunder Mobility talks with Susan Shaheen about the potential separation between public and private transportation, how to create a healthy mobility ecosystem with complementing modes and less competition, and how public transport operators innovate. 

February 11, 2021

Bay Curious

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A year into the coronavirus pandemic there's hope on the horizon. It's too soon to know the lasting impacts on the Bay Area, but we asked experts in mental health, transportation and education to try and predict what we might expect in our day-to-day lives as we slowly emerge from this crisis. 

January 19, 2021

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Susan Shaheen, the co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center, discusses her latest study, Future of Public Transit and Shared Mobility Scenario Planning for COVID 19 Recovery

December 14, 2020

Smart Cities Dive

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The assessment is the first of its kind in North America to show aggregated metrics of the micromobility industry at-large, according to NABSA. The report points to 264 cities in the U.S., 17 in Mexico and 11 in Canada that had at least one bike-share or e-scooter system in 2019.

December 8, 2020