UCTC was recently awarded a federal University Transportation Center grant as the Region 9 center of the US Department of Transportation, with joint funding support from Caltrans.
Each of the six UCTC campuses is conducting a separate call for faculty research proposals.
As the Region 9 University Transportation Center, UCTC’s research mission spans three important, and not unrelated, topics:
- environmental sustainability,
- economic competitiveness, and
- livability.
Research proposals are to be in one or more of these focus areas. Research may be in any discipline and multidisciplinary topics are encouraged when appropriate.
UCTC research focuses on surface (ground) transportation but proposals on air or maritime transportation topics that have significant surface transportation components within these three themes will also be considered.
UCTC’s headquarters office also will release an additional call for proposals soon to encourage multidisciplinary research among these three thematic areas, encouraging collaborations across UC campuses and among faculty from UCTC affiliates at California State University campuses of Pomona, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo and Sacramento.
