Sustainable Transportation Lab


August 26, 2016

Park your ass in economy class!

Bottom line up front Air travel, especially internationally, generates a lot of greenhouse gas emissions, but business class is much worse than economy: Read on for details: Air travel is a big part of most academics’ carbon footprints, and a frequent source of hypocrisy charges for those of us who work on sustainability and climate…


August 4, 2016

Long-term impacts of new mobility services

The Sustainable Transportation Lab is conducting a major study of new mobility services in partnership with the ridesharing company Lyft and BMW’s on-demand carsharing service ReachNow. The objective of the study – being driven by the tenacious leadership of visiting PhD candidate Michiko Namazu – is to identify how new mobility services affect key sustainability…