February 22, 2017
Robert P. Wadell Endows $1M CEE Fellowship
Robert P. Wadell, distinguished alumnus and ITS Advisory Council at Berkeley member has made a generous $500K donation to establish the Robert P. Wadell Endowed Fellowship for Civil Engineering Innovation. His gift was matched with $500K from Berkeley’s Graduate Division.
September 14, 2017
Celebrating PATH@30 Symposium
New faces and familiar faces came together Feb. 16 and 17, 2017 to celebrate 30 years of the past, present and future of California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology’s PATH@30 symposium.
September 14, 2017
ASM Grayson Visits UC Berkeley, ITS
Recently elected State Assemblyman, Timothy Grayson, (D-Concord) came on his first official visit to UC Berkeley on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017.
September 14, 2017
Trapenberg Frick Earns Award for Outstanding Advisor Award
Department of City and Regional Planning Assistant Adjunct Professor Karen Trapenberg Frick is being honored for her dedication to advising students. She is one of only three campuswide recipients of the 2016 Award for Outstanding Faculty Advising from the UC Berkeley Advising Council.
September 14, 2017
Bayen Presents Gilbreth Lecture
ITS Director Alexandre Bayen was selected to give an NAE Gilbreth Lecture Feb. 9, 2017 at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering in Irvine, CA.
September 14, 2017
Connected Corridors Named Beyond Traffic Innovation Center
UC Berkeley’s Connected Corridors program, part of the PATH research center, has been chosen as a Beyond Traffic Innovation Center (BTIC) by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
January 25, 2017
ITS at TRB
Miss the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting Jan. 7-12, 2017? Check out the highlight of ITS Berkeley's participation. Our faculty, researchers and students presented at and participated in over 70 sessions and attended many more!
September 14, 2017
2017 Spring Transportation Seminar Series
The 2017 Spring Transportation Seminar poster is out! Check out our speakers for the semester.
September 14, 2017
ITS Berkeley, Transportation Secretary Foxx Announce $11 Million Grant
The Institute of Transportation Studies Berkeley is helping shape Bay Area congestion management and beyond as part of an $11 million federal grant with the City of San Francisco to create and test pilot projects that have the potential to be replicated around the country.
September 14, 2017
International Book Brings Experts Together to Disrupt Mobility
Taking revolutionary ideas one step further to impact the future of mobility, editors Gereon Meyer and Susan Shaheen combine the best ideas from the sharing economy and smart cities that could truly disrupt mobility with their new book Disrupting Mobility Impacts of Sharing Economy and Innovative
September 14, 2017
Lipman Re-Appointed as TRB Chair ADC80
Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director Tim Lipman has been re-appointed by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies as Chair of the Alternative Transportation Fuels and Technologies Committee (ADC80), with a second term from 2018-2020.
September 14, 2017
ITS Berkeley at TRB 2017
Faculty, researchers and students from ITS Berkeley and its center will be presenting at 56 sessions at TRB this year from Saturday, Jan. 7 - Thursday Jan. 12, 2017! See the schedule.
September 14, 2017
Carrel Earns Eric Pas Dissertation Prize Honorable Mention
ITS alumnus Andre Carrel’s dissertation (’15) has been awarded one of two Honorable Mentions in the 2015 Eric Pas Dissertation Prize competition from a field of 19 nominations by the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research.
December 16, 2016
UC Berkeley studio course envisions additional Transbay crossing
Students in the city and regional planning studio course at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design are working with real professionals to analyze the path for a new Transbay crossing for the San Francisco Bay Area when CalSTA staff recently joined two sessions.
November 16, 2016
Unlocking The Grid: Berkeley Gets $11 Million to Reduce Traffic
Road rage is hardly an acceptable response to the travails of driving. It signals inadequate impulse control, perhaps even sociopathy. People can end up hurt, incarcerated, or worse. But how about road woe?
November 15, 2016
Caroline Le Floch selected as a 2017 Women in Transportation Scholar
PhD student Caroline Le Floch was selected as a 2017 Women in Transportation Scholar, in the Orange County Chapter. Congratulations!
November 15, 2016
Bajcsy amongst the 7 over 70
A companion to Tech Review’s annual 35 Innovators Under 35 list features a list of seven innovators over 70. The new list includes electrical engineering and computer sciences professor Ruzena Bajcsy. Congratulations!
September 14, 2017
PATH presents Connected Corridors AMS Effort to Stakeholders
On Oct. 25, 2016 the Connected Corridors program staff held an Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation (AMS) workshop at Caltrans District 7 headquarters in Los Angeles.
September 14, 2017
Federal Automated Vehicles Policy on Campus
On the heels of September’s announcement and release of the first Federal Automated Vehicles Policy put out by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is looking for feedback.
September 14, 2017
Research and Industry Meet at BDD
Continuing the momentum of collaboration between artificial intelligence and transportation academics and technology and car companies, Berkeley DeepDrive hosted a retreat on Oct. 19, 2016 to bring academics and industry together, while reporting out project progress.