Theme: Transportation & Urban Development

These projects support alternative modes of transportation for our campus community, investment in healthy urban development that reduces environmental impacts of urban development, or otherwise educates our campus community about these issues. 

Building Sustainability at Cal Project

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The Building Sustainability at Cal (BS@C) Program trains and utilizes students to help reduce the environmental impact of campus buildings by identifying structural and operational changes that can be made to buildings, as well as designing and implementing educational projects. This is accomplished by hiring student interns and working on case by case outreach and auditing projects. BS@C interns cooperate with building and project managers, assisting on LEED© (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) credit documentations and other audits. In addition, we...

Berkeley Moves! Targeted Marketing Program Project

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Recently, UC Berkeley has received a gold-medal in bicycle-friendly universities by The League of American Bicyclists and ranked #4 in the country for most transit-friendly colleges by TransitScreen. Based on the increase of transit programs, technologies, and infrastructure, it is important for the students at UC Berkeley to rely on other forms of transportation (meaning very few cars are allowed on campus) as well as the value of transit as a sustainable, congestion and pollution mitigation program. Additionally, P&T launched a RideShare matching...

Berkeley Moves! Carpool

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The UC Berkeley Parking & Transportation Berkeley Moves! Alternative Transportation Unit provides active and alternative transportation solutions to the entire Cal community. P&T will be testing the use and need for carsharing to the students, primarily those who are in need, through the use of subsidizing memberships and/or driving credits.

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Electric Gem for ADA Loop Service

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The Disabled Students Program approached the Parking & Transportation Department in 2007 to assume primary role of operating the Loop service. The Loop service currently provides 120 rides per day. The program recently transitioned from two of three gas-powered golf carts to all electric, street legal Gem carts. Over the past few years, efforts have been made to implement new technologies to improve workflow, increase efficiency, safety and sustainability efforts. The TGIF funds will help cover the cost for the purchase of a new...

Campus Bicycle Initiative

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Educational campaign for increasing bicycling as a mode of transportation and knowledge regarding safe bicycling habits; expansion of BicyCal's services.

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BerkeleyMoves! Parking and Transportation Program and Data Evaluation Intern

Project Description This project will address several aspects of parking and the environmental impacts between pricing for permits and comparison of TDM programs to benchmark ourselves with developing a new transit and mobility plan to better serve the campus; finding out about impacts of an optional carbon offsetting program and fee, which may be optional to the user, to support additional mobility programs supported by findings of the LRDP but also the TDM strategic plan; identifying the correlation of students who commute to campus and making the case to the University about...

Bike to Work Day Regional Sponsorship - 2010

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Fund regional sponsorship for Bike to Work Day 2010.

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Incorporation of Waste Streams into Algal Bioethanol for Sustainable Energy on Campus

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For the past decade, the Biofuels Technology Club has been collecting waste cooking oil from campus dining halls to convert it into biodiesel. This process has significant pitfalls such as waste glycerol production and variable diesel quality. This project aims to solve these issues by using algal biomass as a secondary source for both biodiesel and bioethanol. The waste glycerol serves as nutrient-rich feedstock for the algae boosting intracellular lipid content that can be converted into diesel. The leftover algal biomass after lipid extraction can be further...

BicyCAL

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Open and run a student-run bicycle cooperative that offers peer-to-peer bicycle repair and maintenance education in a radically positive environment.

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