Giovanni Circella

Giovanni Circella

Position Title
Director, 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program, ITS UC Davis

Bio

Giovanni Circella is the Honda Distinguished Scholar for New Mobility Studies and the Director of the 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program at the University of California, Davis, and a Senior Research Engineer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Circella’s interests include travel behavior and emerging transportation services, sustainable transportation, travel demand modeling, travel survey methods, and policy analysis. His recent research has focused on the impacts of information and communication technology (ICT), telecommuting, e-shopping, new mobility (including shared mobility, micromobility and ridehailing) and vehicle automation on travel behavior and auto ownership, the evolving lifestyles and mobility patterns of specific population segments (e.g. “millennials”) and in various regions of the U.S., Europe, South America and the Middle East. Dr. Circella is leading a major research effort on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on activity organization and travel choices (more details available at https://postcovid19mobility.ucdavis.edu/). He is the Chair of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on ICT and Transportation (AEP35) and a member of the Travel Behavior and Values (AEP30) Committee. Dr. Circella is an elected member of the Executive Board of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR), and he serves in the NCHRP 20-102, 20-102(01), 20-102(09) and 20-102(19) and TCRP B-47 project panels on the impacts of connected and automated vehicles and other emerging transportation technologies. Dr. Circella regularly cooperates with metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), other agencies and non-profit organizations in the U.S., Europe and South America.