Air Quality, Safety, and Well-Being Consequences of Transportation Impacts

October 21, 2020 @ 9:30 am - 11:30 am PDT

Air Quality, Safety, and Well-Being Consequences of Transportation Impacts

When millions reduced their travel, local air quality improved and the rate and severity of traffic crashes decreased. But what were the impacts on individual mental health? And what can we learn about the personal psychological utility of travel by understanding the stressors imposed on those without access to a personal vehicle? Also, how are these observed travel changes impacting our understanding of transportation systems, which are derived from modeling and forecasting?

Speaking:

Co-Director and Lecturer

Offer Grembek
Assistant Professor

Cesunica Ivey
Applications Program Manager

Sang Hyouk Oum
PhD Candidate

Madeleine Parker
Deputy Director and Lecturer

Juan Matute

Co-Director and Lecturer

Offer Grembek

Dr. Offer Grembek is a researcher and lecturer at the University of California Berkeley. He serves as the Co‐Director at the university’s Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC), a research center affiliated with the UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies. Dr. Grembek is an Associate Director of the Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety, a National University Transportation Center. He was a member of the CalSTA Zero Traffic Fatalities Task Force commissioned by AB 2383, and is currently a member of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Transportation Safety Management Systems (ACS10). His research expertise includes injury risk in multimodal environments, pedestrian and bicycle safety, exposure estimates, systemic approach to road safety management, and the Safe System Approach.

Assistant Professor

Cesunica Ivey

Cesunica Ivey is an assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside. Ivey has a background in mathematics, civil engineering, and environmental engineering, and she received her Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 2016. She was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics at the University of Nevada Reno and a visiting scientist at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. Her research interests include source apportionment of fine particulate matter, regional air quality modeling for health applications, global atmospheric modeling, and environmental justice.

Applications Program Manager

Sang Hyouk Oum

SangHyouk is an Applications Program Manager at the University of California Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC). SangHyouk has been working on creating and managing various web tools for transportation safety includes: Transportation Injury Mapping System (TIMS), California Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) Tracking Tool, California Tribal Data Viewer, Street Story, etc. His area of expertise are: transportation safety data, GIS analysis, and web programming.

PhD Candidate

Madeleine Parker

Madeleine Parker is a Ph.D. Candidate in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the intersection of travel behavior, public transit, land use, and housing. She received a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University and previously worked in New York City government.

Deputy Director and Lecturer

Juan Matute

Juan Matute is the Deputy Director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies and an expert on transportation and land use and how technological innovations like driverless cars, electric vehicles and GPS mobile apps like Waze and Google Maps affect urban mobility and transportation accessibility, especially in Los Angeles. Matute also examines sustainable transportation and land use, transit systems, and local government climate planning, specifically how local governments measure and manage greenhouse gas emissions.

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