Research
Transportation & Mining
Transportation is one of the biggest contributors to carbon emissions in the US. We take a full supply chain approach to our transportation work– from extraction of materials to build infrastructure and components, to vehicle manufacturing and infrastructure construction to end users and community transport needs.
Featured Research
Achieving Zero Emissions with More Mobility and Less Mining
Transportation is the number one source of carbon emissions in the United States– making the sector crucial to decarbonize quickly to limit the climate crisis. States …

Transportation & Mining
Community Benefits Agreements
In the face of energy transition projects, communities can deploy community benefits agreements (CBAs) to exert control over their futures. When communities get organized early, know …

Transportation & Mining
Supply Chain Solidarity: Lessons from the Lithium Frontlines
Workers and organizers, representing different parts of the transportation supply chain, journey across Nevada to learn first-hand about the impacts of lithium mining for electric vehicle …

Transportation & Mining
Letting People Move
Transportation policy represents a key tool to address both the cost of living and climate crises. In the United States, the shortcomings of today’s transportation system …

Transportation & Mining
Jobs for More Mobility and Less Mining
The urgency of eliminating emissions from the transportation sector–the number one source of U.S. carbon emissions–intensifies with every day of inaction. Some climate advocates believe that …

Transportation & Mining
How are transportation dollars flowing in your state?
The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act dedicated $643 billion to surface transportation over a five year period. Roughly two thirds of that investment goes to …

Transportation & Mining
From Margins to Growth
The structure of the railroad industry in the United States constitutes a massive and ongoing missed opportunity. Freight service is in decline, and passenger service lags …

Transportation & Mining
Seize the Future
The polycrisis is wreaking economic insecurity, mass death and genocide, climate disasters, and other kinds of instability on working people worldwide. Progressives must put forward policies …

Global Systems & Policy
Bringing The Jobs on Board
Transit plays a central role in providing access to schools, jobs, medical care, parks, grocery stores and other everyday necessities. For decades, the United States has …

Transportation & Mining
Transportation & Mining Researchers

Emmett Hopkins

Kira McDonald

Thea Riofrancos
Associate Professor of Political Science,
Providence College

James J.A. Blair
Cal Poly Pomona

Dustin Mulvaney
Environmental Studies,
San José State University

Alissa Kendall
University of California Davis

tamika butler
tamika l. butler consulting and Trustee TransitCenter

Billy Fleming
Wilks Family Director,
Ian L. McHarg Center, University of Pennsylvania

Yonah Freemark
The Urban Institute

John Stehlin
Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability,
University of North Carolina, Greensboro