EcoDataLab

Transportation Team

As part of the Transportation team, students will develop transportation greenhouse gas inventories for California cities and counties. This will require collecting, cleaning, analyzing and developing online visualizations of local travel behavior and related GHG emissions. Data sources include regional transportation models, U.S. Census, Department of Motor Vehicles, U.S. Federal Highway Administration and other sources. An important goal will be to understand differences between models and to develop a framework that can be consistently applied across all California jurisdictions. Transportation accounts for 40% of California's GHG emissions; collection, cleaning and analysis of transportation data is urgently needed by local governments.