PhD Transportation Technology & Policy, UC Davis (2011)

MS Transportation Technology & Policy, UC Davis (2009)

BS Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley (2001)

Tai Stillwater is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies. He is working with Dr. Kenneth Kurani in the emerging Behavior and Sustainability Feedback Systems group that he helped develop as a PhD student in Transportation Technology and Policy and Emerging Venture Analyst at the Energy Efficiency Center. Before graduation he worked as a Graduate Student Researcher under Dr. Kenneth Kurani at the Plug-in Hybrid Demonstration Project, with a focus on vehicle interfaces and energy use. His doctoral dissertation, “Comprehending Consumption: The Behavioral Basis and Implementation of Driver Feedback for Reducing Vehicle Energy Use” focused on the impact of novel vehicle interfaces on driving behavior and fuel economy using the framework of the Theory of Planned Behavior. He was the 2007-8 CH2M Hill Fellow in transportation and received the 2007-8 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Scholarship. Tai graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2001, and worked on composite parts for the ATLAS particle detector at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) from 2000-2003. While at UC Berkeley, he participated in the Cal Human Powered Vehicle Team, breaking multiple world speed records with a carbon fiber vehicle he helped design and manufacture called the "Bearacuda". In 2010 the "Bearacuda" was accepted into the U.S. Bicycle Hall Of Fame and will be on display after restoration. After leaving Berkeley, Tai spent a year traveling in developing countries and learning about the resource management problems that plague countries around the world. Back in the US, he spent a summer at the California Energy Commission before joining the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies. He completed his Master's Thesis, “Carsharing and Land use: A Geographic Information Based Study of one U.S. Operator,” in 2009. Tai spent the summer and fall quarters of 2008 as an intern at Chevron Energy Solutions focusing on renewable energy design for communities. As a part of that Internship, Tai organized the 2008 West Village Contributor's Forum, bringing together the developers, architects, energy providers, and energy efficiency affiliate companies in order to generate a productive dialogue on how the development could achieve net-zero energy operation.

Tai Stillwater
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Transportation Studies
University of California-Davis, 2028 Academic Surge, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616
Phone: (530) 219-0562; tstillwater@ucdavis.edu

Professional Preparation
University of California-Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering, B.S., 2001
University of California-Davis, Transportation Technology and Policy, M.S., 2009
University of California-Davis, Transportation Technology and Policy, Ph.D., 2011

Appointments
University of California-Davis (Aug 2011-present):
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Transportation Studies
Postdoctoral Researcher, Energy Efficiency Center

Related Publications
Stillwater, T. (2011). Comprehending Consumption: The Behavioral Basis and Implementation of Driver
Feedback for Reducing Vehicle Energy Use. University of California, Davis.
Stillwater, T., & Kurani, K. S.. An Energy Information Feedback Field Test: Driver Responses and
Behavioral Theory. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.
Kurani, K. S., Axsen, J., Caperello, N., Davies-Shawhyde, J., Dempster, P., Kempster, M., Nesbitt, K.
A., et al. (2010). Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) Demonstration and Consumer Education,
Outreach, and Market Research Program: Volumes I and II. doi:UCD-ITS-RR-10-21

Submitted Articles in Review
Stillwater, Kurani, Mokhtarian, Increasing—and Decreasing—Fuel Economy Using Feedback: A
Behavioral Theory Inspired Ecodriving Experiment, Transportation Research Board
Stillwater, Kurani, In-Vehicle Ecodriving Interface: Theory, Design, and Driver Responses,
Transportation Research Board

Other Significant Publications
Stillwater, T., P. L. Mokhtarian, S.A. Shaheen, “Carsharing and the Built Environment: A GIS-Based
Study of One U.S. Operator,” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation
Research Board, Volume 2110 / 2009. December 2009.
Co-Author, “UC Davis West Village Energy Efficiency Project”, University of California, Davis Office
of Resource Management & Planning, June 2007.

Synergistic Activities
1. Organized two workshops on energy and human behavior: the 2007 Smart Parking Workshop
(Berkeley, CA) and the 2009 West Village Contributors Forum (Davis, CA).
2. Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1998-Present)
3. Peer Reviewer, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2011

Collaborators and Other Affiliations
Collaborators and Co-Editors: Jonn Axsen, Simon Frasier University; Kenneth S. Kurani, University of
California-Davis; Patricia L. Mokhtarian, University of California-Davis; Susan Shaheen, Sustainable
Transportation Center, Berkeley CA;
Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors: Kenneth S. Kurani (Thesis Chair); Patricia L. Mokhtarian; Daniel
Sperling; Alan Meier.