September 14, 2017
Tomlin Receives IEEE Technical Field Award
UC Berkeley professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Claire Tomlin has been selected to receive the 2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transportation Technologies Award, which recognizes advances in technologies applied in transportation systems.
September 14, 2017
Urban Studies Best Article Shortlist
Karen Trapenberg Frick, Adjunct Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, Paul Waddell, Professor of City and Regional Planning, and David Weinzimmer, recent Transportation Engineering Master of Science/Master of City Planning alumnus‘s article has been na
September 14, 2017
Undergrads place 2nd at Airport Competition—5th straight year in the top two
Four undergraduates from CEE capstone design class, CE 153: Transportation Facility Design, placed second at the 2015-2016 Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs.
June 22, 2016
The Megaproject Curse: Why Thinking Costs Will ‘Only Double’ May Be Too Optimistic
While the new Bay Bridge is finally functional, it stands more as a symbol of dysfunction than anything else. From the start it seemed born under a bad sign, down since it began to crawl—like, if it wasn’t for bad luck, it wouldn’t have no luck at all.
June 22, 2016
Whooshing into the Future: Aiming to Make Speed-of-Sound Commutes a Reality
Remember pneumatic tubes, those compressed-air pipelines that whisked plastic canisters from basement mailrooms to penthouse boardrooms? Imagine being in one, traveling at more than 700 mph. You could make the round-trip from San Francisco to LA in a little over an hour.
June 21, 2016
New App Will Let You Virtually Test Drive Green Vehicles
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Samveg Saxena has developed a new app, MyGreenCar, that allows drivers to virtually test drive green vehicles so they can decide what's best for them.
June 9, 2016
Smart Cities Final Pitch
Miss the Smart Cities Final Pitch live stream on June 9? Watch San Francisco's pitch video here, with Transportation Sustainbility Research Center Co-Director Susan Shaheen.
May 31, 2016
Learning to levitate
Berkeley Hyperloop (bLoop) team members have been invited to build a working prototype of their design for a futuristic vision of a mass transit system in which people board pressurized capsules to zing through reduced-pressure tubes on rails of air.
May 27, 2016
Traffic Jammin’
PATH's Steven Shladover began pioneering automated transportation in the 1980s. He believes that a seamless, autonomous transportation network is still decades away.
September 14, 2017
Inventing the Future of Mobility
Check out our newly published book, Inventing the Future of Mobility, showcasing the Instuitute's history, leadership, and administration and explores the future of transportation through the many initiatives currently underway at ITS and our vision for helping society address the trans
May 24, 2016
Making unmanned flight safe
Raja Sengupta, professor of civil and environmental engineering and co-founder of the startup company Responsible Robotics, heads a team spun out of the Cal Unmanned Aviation Lab that is creating new technologies that enable drone operators to easily comply with emerging regulations.
May 23, 2016
Spring 2016 ACCESS is out
The new edition of ACCESS Magazine is out! ITS Professor Robert Cervero, ITS alum Megan Ryerson and former ITS Director Martin Wachs write feature articles in the Spring magazine.
September 14, 2017
Berkeley Lab Hosts Cleantech Pitchfest
Berkeley Lab's popular Science at the Theater travels across the Bay to San Francisco's Marines' Memorial Theatre to present the Lab’s first Cleantech Pitchfest. Six Berkeley Lab scientists have 8 minutes each to persuade you that their technology has the most promise and social value.
May 19, 2016
Transportation experts pitch San Francisco as nation’s first ‘smart transit’ city
UC Berkeley experts joined San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee yesterday in an attempt to convince U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx that the city is the best place to invest $40 million to pioneer a 21st-century smart urban transportation system.
May 18, 2016
ITS Spring Transportation Seminar in Review
Every Friday during the semester, ITS hosts a Transportation Seminar - inviting top academics, industry leaders and alumni in transportation! See our Spring semester seminar series in review.
September 14, 2017
Berkeley Tops Transportation Thought Leaders in Academia List
ITS academic Susan Shaheen and alumni Megan Smirti Ryerson, Brian Taylor and Seth Young have been named on the Eno Center for Transportation’s Top 10 Transportation Thought Leaders in Academia.
September 14, 2017
ITS Awards Excellence
ITS recognized faculty, staff and student achievement Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at its first ITS Awards Ceremony.
May 5, 2016
ITS, city of San Francisco team up to tackle transit challenges
Nearly 200 people gathered in San Francisco City Hall on May 3, vying for the attention of city and UC Berkeley transportation experts who hope to tap the local tech industry to turn San Francisco into a national model for “smart transportation.”
September 14, 2017
ITS Awards Ceremony
The Institute of Transportation Studies cordially invites you to join us for our first ITS Awards Ceremony, on Wednesday May 11th, when we will honor and recognize our outstanding colleagues, staff, faculty and students for their achievements and their research, vision, and dedication in support
September 14, 2017
UCCONNECT Hosts Zero-Emission Mobility Symposium
The University of California Center on Economic Competitiveness in Transportation (UCCONNECT) hosted a symposium on Achieving Zero-Emission Mobility: The Role of Innovative Electric Vehicle Companies.