Basic sanitation and hygiene can prevent roughly a million deaths a year. This study examines the rapid prototyping of a pilot school-based handwashing, safe water, and sanitation program in Chennai, India. Our content analysis identified challenges in the classroom (Localization; Curriculum...

A pilot program at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo explores the potential for Planetizen Courses, an online video course platform, to enrich and extend curriculum through a hybrid classroom learning environment. Based on an implementation in two courses, results show increased command of, and comfort...

Increasingly city planners, policymakers and academics have recognized the important role behavior plays in travel decisions. A large body of work now recognizes modal choice as a suite of options that may be tied to habit but also that fluctuate based on built environment factors, personal...

In recent mortgage credit has become scarce, especially for low-to-middle income LMI individuals, including the working class and minorities. This has limited the ability for many of these individuals to purchase in sustainable, transportation accessible urban locations. This paper explores...

In the face of global climate change, providing urban systems that support sustainable agriculture could not be more important. This article builds on past work calling for a ‘nourished’urbanism. It explores case studies, opportunities and constrains to build food systems alongside urban...

This working paper seeks to understand how travellers make economic decisions. The primary goal is to advance knowledge about the behavioural response to different kinds of incentives such as financial nudges requiring them to make snap judgements about value. The research finds that, consistent...

Ridesourcing services have become important part of local transportation ecosystems glob-ally. They offer new new opportunities to access rides for travelers of all kinds, and also new ways to think about variants of traditional transit and affordable transportation for those without auto...

The COVID-19 epidemic has had unprecedented impacts on travel patterns in the US. This study evaluates changes to travel after shelter in place mandates. It finds that despite a potential reduction in gross vehicle miles travel, travel for secondary trips for recreation, shopping and errands may...

Environmental and human exploitation are connected and occurring around the world due in large part to the mining of rare earth metals. In places like Brazil, the Congo and Peru in modern-day slave labor fuels mining camps, while degrading the quality of local fishing and agricultural...

Basic sanitation and hygiene can prevent roughly a million deaths a year. This study examines the rapid prototyping of a pilot school-based handwashing, safe water, and sanitation program in Chennai, India. Our content analysis identified challenges in the classroom (Localization; Curriculum...