Daniel Sperling
{{short description|American academic}}
Daniel Sperling (born March 27, 1951, in Albany, New York, United States) is the American founding director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis (ITS-Davis); professor of civil and environmental engineering; professor of environmental science and policy; and faculty director of the Policy Institute for Energy, Environment, and the Economy at the University of California, Davis.{{cite web|url=http://www.its.ucdavis.edu/about/faculty-researchers/single/?person=sperling-daniel |title=Individual Faculty – Institute of Transportation Studies – Davis |access-date=15 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129042145/http://www.its.ucdavis.edu/about/faculty-researchers/single/?person=sperling-daniel |archive-date=29 November 2014 }}
Education
Sperling received his bachelor's degree in environmental engineering and urban planning from Cornell University in 1973, and his Ph.D. in transportation engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (with minors in economics, energy and resources) in 1982.{{cite web|url=http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/FacultyInfo.aspx?ID_Number=50|title=Faculty Information|access-date=15 November 2014}}
Career
From 1973 to 1975, he worked as an urban planner for the Peace Corps in Honduras. From 1976 to 1977 he worked as an environmental planner for the United States Environmental Protection Agency.{{cite web|url=http://www.cme.uic.edu/bin/view/CME/SeminarSperling|title=CME - SeminarSperling|access-date=15 November 2014}}
In 1991, Sperling founded the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, bringing government, industry, and nongovernmental organizations together to conduct groundbreaking scientific research, and better inform environmental and transportation policy makers.{{cite web|url=http://www.its.ucdavis.edu/slide-show/blue-planet-prize-environmental-nobel-awarded-to-dan-sperling|title=Blue Planet Prize – 'Environmental Nobel' – awarded to Dan Sperling – Institute of Transportation Studies – Davis|access-date=15 November 2014}} ITS-Davis is now home to more than 60 affiliated faculty and researchers and over 130 graduate students.
In 2007, he was appointed to the California Air Resources Board.,{{cite web|url=http://www.arb.ca.gov/board/bio/dsperling.htm|title=ARB Board Member Biographies - Daniel Sperling|author=California Air Resources Board|access-date=15 November 2014|archive-date=4 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141104033220/http://www.arb.ca.gov/board/bio/dsperling.htm|url-status=dead}} and named co-director of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard study.{{cite web|url=http://dateline.ucdavis.edu/dl_detail.lasso?id=9229|title=LOW CARB DIET: Schwarzenegger taps scientists to draft state's historic new fuel standard|work=UC Davis News & Information|access-date=15 November 2014}} He is currently Vice Chair of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies and in 2015 he will be named Chair.{{cite web|url=http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/news/93AM/14ExComm.pdf|title=2014 Officers and New Members of TRB Executive Committee Announced|publisher=Onlinepubs.trb.org|access-date=15 November 2014}} He is currently an associate editor of the journal Transportation Research Part D{{cite web|url=http://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-d-transport-and-environment/editorial-board/|title=Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment Editorial Board|work=Elsevier|access-date=15 November 2014}} He is also the Co-Director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation, a U.S. Department of Transportation research, education, and outreach consortium aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions from passenger and freight travel.{{cite web|url=http://ncst.ucdavis.edu/people/executive-committee/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140806201028/http://ncst.ucdavis.edu/people/executive-committee/|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 6, 2014|title=Executive Committee – National Center for Sustainable Transportation|access-date=15 November 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.its.ucdavis.edu/slide-show/its-davis-will-lead-new-11-2-million-national-center/|title=ITS-Davis will lead new $11.2 million National Center for Sustainable Transportation – Institute of Transportation Studies – Davis|access-date=15 November 2014}}
Honors and awards
In 2004, Sperling was selected as a National Associate of the National Academies,{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalacademies.org/includes/nationalassociates.pdf|title=The National Associates Program|publisher=Nationalacademies.org|access-date=15 November 2014}} an organization dedicated to advising the government and public on matters of science, technology, and health.
He was appointed chair of the Council on the Future of Transportation for the World Economic Forum in 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.weforum.org/pdf/globalagenda.pdf|title=The Global Agenda 2009|publisher=Weforum.org=15 November 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001194532/http://www.weforum.org/pdf/globalagenda.pdf|archive-date=1 October 2009}}
Sperling appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart{{cite web|url=http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/vjat5n/daniel-sperling|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027044219/http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/vjat5n/daniel-sperling|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 27, 2014|title=Daniel Sperling|access-date=15 November 2014}} to discuss the sustainable transportation issues spotlighted in Sperling’s book Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability (2009).{{Cite book | last = Sperling, Daniel and Deborah Gordon | title = Two billion cars: driving toward sustainability | year = 2009 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/twobillioncarsdr00sper_0/page/24 24 and 189–191] | publisher = Oxford University Press, New York | isbn = 978-0-19-537664-7 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/twobillioncarsdr00sper_0/page/24 }}
In 2010, he was one of ten recipients of the 16th Annual Heinz Award with special focus on global change.{{cite web|url=http://www.heinzawards.net/recipients/daniel-sperling|title=The Heinz Awards: Daniel Sperling|publisher=The Heinz Awards|access-date=August 26, 2016}} He is one of two winners of the 2013 Blue Planet Prize by the Asahi Glass Foundation of Tokyo, which is described as the “Nobel prize for the environmental sciences.”{{cite web|url=http://www.af-info.or.jp/en/blueplanet/introduction.html|title=Blue Planet Prize|access-date=15 November 2014}} In 2013, he served as chair of the California Fuel Cell Partnership, a public-private organization aimed at promoting the commercialization of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.{{cite web|url=http://cafcp.org/2013_cafcp_chair |title=Dr. Dan Sperling named 2013 CaFCP Chair |work=California Fuel Cell Partnership |access-date=15 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129020439/http://cafcp.org/2013_cafcp_chair |archive-date=29 November 2014 }}
Research and publications
Since 1981, Prof. Sperling has authored more than 200 technical papers and 12 books,{{cite web|url=http://www.its.ucdavis.edu/research/publications/author-detail/?pub_author_id=1|title=Author Detail – Institute of Transportation Studies – Davis|access-date=15 November 2014}} including Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability published in 2009.
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