The urgency for policy action in reducing emissions is as prevalent as ever as California witnesses the impacts of climate change and record breaking wildfires. Dr. Austin Brown speaks with Dan Gearino in an interview for Inside Climate News on the the correlation between research, policy communities, and climate disasters.
Category Archives: Sustainable Transporation
New Review Explores the Future of Road Electrification in the United States
A review by the Policy Institute’s Austin Brown, Kelly Fleming and Hannah Safford exploring the available technologies and key challenges for electrification of the transportation sector. Electrification is necessary to fight the current impacts of transportation on climate change, and is possible with current and future technologies, infrastructure and policy.
Austin Brown on COVID-19 and Climate Policy Conversations
Director of the Policy Institute, Austin Brown, talks on shelter-in-place directives influence on society, the environment and transportation. Austin discusses lessons to be taken into consideration for environmental policy actions post COVID-19 recovery.
Policy Institute director Austin Brown featured on Capital Public Radio
Could COVID-19 change how people travel for good? Capital Public Radio discussed the question with the Policy Institute’s Austin Brown.
Policy Institute leadership provides expert commentary to BBC, Capital Public Radio
The BBC and Capital Public Radio recently turned to the Policy Institute’s Austin Brown and Colin Murphy for insight on what current events may mean for the future of sustainable transportation.
Electric vehicle fees won’t fix the transportation funding gap
Many blame electric vehicles for the $1.1 trillion gap in federal transportation funding. Many are wrong.
Q&A: The Biggest Source Of Carbon Emissions Or The Best Opportunity?
Austin Brown talks with the Alliance to Save Energy about the current trends and future potential of transportation.
Product Liability Is the Wrong Standard for Self-Driving Cars
Who’s responsible when AVs crash? Why the success of automated vehicles depends on smart liability policy.
Asking for Forgiveness
In the age of new technology, is it better to ask for forgiveness, or beg for permission? Austin Brown and Kelly Fleming explore why companies have taken this approach and how policymakers and business leaders can improve the situation.
Why Federal AV Policy Is a Necessary– But Not Sufficient– Step
Additional strategic policies across all levels of government are necessary to achieve our vision of a shared, electric, and automated future.