Sponsored by the Randall W. Lewis Family Foundation
Additional contribution by Union Bank
The SoCal Transformation Database is a centralized digital repository for the Southern California region to easily access a diverse variety of expert intelligence on areas of pertinence to the long term reinvention of our region post pandemic times. Creative ideas and best practices from both the public and private sectors will be available for free to best prepare our communities to save lives and jobs when the next crisis occurs.
Community groups, businesses, public agencies, schools, economists, and philanthropic organizations may take advantage of the relevant research available on programs, initiatives, articles, white papers, webinars, websites, forums and videos. These resources will make it easier to research, store, display, share and deliver information to civic, academic and economic leaders.
To submit a URL or upload a document for submission to the database, contact Christopher at christopher.im@bizfed.org.
Travel decision determinants during and after COVID-19: The role of tourist trust, travel constraints, and attitudinal factors
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced tourism practitioners to create efficient strategies to attract travelers. Using three theoretical frameworks, such as tourist trust , travel constraint, and extended theory of planned behavior, we develop a comprehensive framework to explain the impact of travel promoting, restricting, and attitudinal factors on travel decision during and after the pandemic.
2018 Comprehensive Multimodal Corridor Plan Guidelines
Whereas, on April 28, 2017, the Governor signed Senate Bill (SB) 1 (Beall, Chapter 5 Statutes of 2017) known as the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017, and created the Solutions for Congested Corridors Program to fund projects that make specific performance improvements and are part of a comprehensive corridor plan designed to reduce congestion in highly traveled corridors by providing more transportation choices while preserving the character of local community and creating opportunities for neighborhood enhancement projects ...
Agriculture, transportation, and the COVID-19 crisis
Food supply chains connect heavily dependent producers and consumers throughout the globe, often with just-in-time delivery. Many of these critical supply chains have been disrupted, or are threatened to be disrupted, by the COVID-19 pandemic.
County of Los Angeles COVID-19 Economic Resiliency Task Force Infrastructure Development and Construction Sector Recommendation Report
In the face of the COVID-19 crisis, the County must strengthen its commitment to sustainability, equity, and resilience in order to create a pathway for investment in a safe, healthy, and inclusive future.
California’s recovery efforts should include clean transportation
California can continue to lead in the transportation energy markets of the future by making investments that stimulate green transportation.
The Next Normal in Urban Mobility Doesn’t Look Anything Like the Old Normal
The news out of INRIX last week was not wholly unexpected. Just two months after hitting near-record lows, vehicle traffic in the US has already made up a majority of its pre-covid volume, with similar shifts being measured in several countries around the world.
It might be tempting, given these developments, to think that the “next normal” in urban mobility and sustainability is looking a lot like the “old normal”—but thankfully that’s not the full picture.
How micromobility can support a green economic recovery post-COVID-19
The transition to a post-COVID world is not going to be as simple as offering more micromobility options than before. How can service providers look to fill the void that COVID-19 has created?
California mandates zero-exhaust big rigs, delivery trucks
The requirements begin in 2024. By 2035, 55% of delivery vans and large pickups, 75% of commercial trucks such as garbage trucks and 40% of the big rigs sold in California must be emissions-free.
Cycling as Transportation & COVID-19: Advantages of Shared Bicycles during Epidemics
The world is dealing environmental pollution issues caused by exhaust emissions,including hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter from vehicles using traditional fuels, such as gasoline and diesel, and these were expected to significantly increase by 2020.
Los Angeles Aerial Rapid Transit
Los Angeles Aerial Rapid Transit (LA ART) is a proposed gondola system that can connect Los Angeles Union Station to Dodger Stadium in 7 minutes.
Agriculture, transportation, and the COVID‐19 crisis
In this short paper, I assess how COVID‐19‐related disruptions in transportation services, as well as new demands for transportation services, could impact Canadian agricultural supply chains.
COVID-19 and Public Transportation: Current Assessment, Prospects, and Research Needs
The COVID-19 pandemic poses a great challenge for contemporary public transportation worldwide, resulting from an unprecedented decline in demand and revenue.
Reflections on Pandemics, Civil Infrastructure and Sustainable Development: Five Lessons from COVID-19 through the Lens of Transportation
This article reflects on five lessons that COVID-19 is teaching us about what it means to develop sustainably through the lens of transportation:
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Transportation Engineering
In this editorial, we intend to discern some lessons for the transportation engineering profession that can be learned from the current catastrophe that can help us prepare for future disruptions.
COVID-19 Outbreak and the Transportation Industry: Effects, Prospects and Challenges
The transportation industry is an integral component of the economy and a common tool used for development. This is even more so in a global economy where economic opportunities have been increasingly related to the mobility of people and freight, including information and communications technologies.
Public Transportation in a Post‐COVID‐19 Microbial World
Passenger transportation systems are one of the major concerns in addressing the ongoing threats of emergent highly infectious diseases. This article highlights common ways for diseases to be transmitted in a public transportation context and methods that might be adopted or further researched to reduce the spread.
Intelligent Transportation Systems along with the COVID-19 Pandemic will Significantly Change the Transportation Market
Reducing human presence in vehicles and transportation infrastructure is a common concept of Intelligent Transportation Systems and COVID-19 guidelines. However, the motivation for the reduced human presence is different.
The Impact of COVID-19 on California Transportation Revenue
Transportation revenue has plummeted because user fees produce a large share of resources needed to operate California’s transportation system.
Innovative Cities Funding New Clean Fuel Stations
Cities across the nation are looking for new and innovative approaches to reduce emissions from their transportation systems. Adopting an “all-of-the-above” energy strategy allows cities to utilize multiple clean fuel solutions so municipal fleets can choose the fuel that works best for their unique operations.
Connect SoCal: Public Health Technical Report
BYD strategist and transit technology expert Dr. Tom Stone says SkyRail is an idea whose time has come
Using BYD’s advanced, fully autonomous SkyRailTM technology, a state-of-the-art elevated monorail system from the Valley to LAX can be built in about four years (after all the environmental permits, studies and clearances are completed).
The role of transportation infrastructure on the impact of natural hazards on communities
Well-being and distributive justice after natural events are quantified. Quantification is through novel connectivity-based metrics. The presented metrics are probabilistic. The procedure is applied to the transportation network of Seaside, OR. The procedure is general and applicable to different communities.
Agriculture, transportation, and the COVID‐19 crisis
The brief analysis reveals that agricultural access to bulk ocean freight, rail movement, and trucking has generally improved in the pandemic, bolstered by the reduced demand for these transportation services by other sectors of the economy.
COVID-19 and Public Transportation: Current Assessment, Prospects, and Research Needs
The COVID-19 pandemic poses a great challenge for contemporary public transportation worldwide, resulting from an unprecedented decline in demand and revenue.
Kinetic energy harvesting technologies for applications in land transportation: A comprehensive review
The development of land transportation has effectively contributed to countries’ economic and social development. Roads, rails and vehicles have come into widespread use in transporting things from one location to another on land.
Big data algorithms and applications in intelligent transportation system: A review and bibliometric analysis
The volume and availability of data in the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) result in the need for data-driven approaches. Big Data algorithms are applied to further enhance the intelligence of the applications in the transportation field.
Evaluating the environmental impacts of online shopping: A behavioral and transportation approach
Various fields and commercial sectors have witnessed a transformation with the advent of the internet. In the last decade, the retail sector in particular has witnessed the massive growth of e-commerce.
The role of transportation accessibility in regional economic resilience
Whereas the importance of transportation for economic growth is widely acknowledged, past studies on the resilience of regions to economic shocks have not given explicit attention to the role of transportation accessibility on building robust regional economies.
SDG&E Launches New EV Incentives Powering San Diego Fleets
California has been leading the charge to get more zero emission vehicles on the road in support of statewide goals to improve air quality and combat climate change. Electric vehicle (EV) deployments, particularly in the medium- and heavy-duty vehicle sectors that are largely dependent on petroleum-based fuels, are critical for the state to meet its climate-related goals as transportation is the single largest source of greenhouse gases, according to the California Air Resources Board (CARB).
Is the H2 economy realizable in the foreseeable future? Part II: H2 storage, transportation, and distribution
H2 storage in compressed form is the commercially viable technology at present. Critical cost factors in H2 storage, transportation and distribution are provided.