The UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies is hosting a daylong workshop on neighborhood electric vehicles on Thursday, June 30. NEVs are small, light-weight cars built for stop-and-go traffic around town rather than for high-speed or long-distance travel. They are meant to replace the dirtiest and most inefficient travel, reducing emissions up to 95 percent compared to a new subcompact gas-burning car. Other people see them as part of a new vision of urbanism that calls for pedestrian-scale communities. Beginning at 9:30 a.m. at the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center on campus, the meeting includes sessions on technology, policy, marketing and infrastructure issues. The program features AeroVironment Inc. CEO Paul MacCready and Michael Replogle, co-director of the Environmental Defense Fund's Transportation Project.