Research

On Jan 5, 2025, New York enacted a congestion pricing plan years in the making.

The pandemic exposed deep flaws in the sourcing and delivery of goods and services worldwide. Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research's Matthew Jackson explains what’s wrong and what needs to be done now.

n this Future of Everything podcast, Grace Gao, Associate Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics, an expert in global positioning technologies, looks ahead to expand GPS’s capabilities to the moon and, perhaps, beyond. 

Reducing grid interconnection delays, planning and constructing new transmission, and bringing new storage capacity on line are needed to secure a clean energy future.

A new study shows that electric vehicle tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act reduced pollution and boosted U.S. automakers, but largely benefited buyers who would have purchased EVs without subsidies.

By 2050, population in the world’s cities is expected to double. The Stanford King Center on Global Development supports research uncovering best practices for future urbanization. King Center faculty also focus on urban transit such as the ongoing effects of a new bus rapid transit (BRT) system in Tanzania including on low-income residents living near the bus line. 

A new technology developed at Stanford can extract lithium from brines at an estimated cost of under 40% that of today’s dominant extraction method, and at just a fourth of lithium’s current market price. The new technology would also be much more reliable and sustainable in its use of water, chemicals, and land than today’s technology. 

Scientists at Stanford, SLAC and 13 other institutions are seeking to overcome the major limitations of a battery by using water as the primary component of its electrolyte.