September 14, 2017
UC Berkeley Expands Pavement Training for California Local Agencies
For the academic year 2016-2017, Tech Transfer is rolling out its newly expanded pavement training series, which will cover topics from preliminary design all the way through to long-term maintenance.
September 21, 2016
Effect of Pavement Structural Response on Vehicle Fuel Consumption and Emissions: Field Calibration of Models
During the summer of 2016, in the second phase of a Caltrans-sponsored study, the UCPRC investigated the effects of pavement structural response (the bending under load phenomenon), along with verifying models for roughness and texture.
September 21, 2016
Case Study: Interstate 210 Pilot Project
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology's Connected Corridors I-210 Pilot project is featured as part of the SCAG’s final 2016 RTP/SCS, which was federally approved in early June of this year. See page 88.
September 9, 2016
City of San Francisco and UC Berkeley to continue collaborating on ‘smart cities’
This year’s bid by San Francisco and UC Berkeley to win the U.S.
September 9, 2016
$4.6 million grant to improve how automated cars, drones interact with humans
As companies contemplate putting self-driving cars on our city streets, driverless trucks on our freeways and autonomous delivery drones overhead, UC Berkeley engineers are embarking on a major project to improve the safety of these vehicles and how they interact with humans.
September 14, 2017
Envisioning the Future: SECA Vehicles Hackathon
Gearing up for an exciting Bridge SF 2016 conference, ITS Berkeley and TSRC teamed up to host a Disrupting Mobility Hackathon at the ITS Library Sept. 3-4, 2016 to explore how Shared Automated Electric and Connected (SECA) vehicles will impact the way people and goods move within a city.
September 6, 2016
Car sharing on campuses improves quality of life, takes cars off the road
You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out why UC Berkeley has designated parking areas for Nobel Laureates: if there's one thing harder to snag than a Nobel prize, it's a parking space on a UC campus. Car sharing programs on campus could be a part of the solution.
September 2, 2016
ME Professor Francesco Borrelli Wins IFAC Industrial Achievement Award
The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Council has awarded ME Professor Francesco Borrelli the 2017 Industrial Achievement Award.
September 14, 2017
TSRC, Zipcar Study Finds Significantly Fewer Personal Cars on Campuses
Zipcar, the world’s leading car sharing network, and the University of California, Berkeley’s Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC), today released the findings of a first-of-its kind study of Zipcar car sharing on North American college and university campuses.
September 14, 2017
Cathy Wu Selected as Rising Star
Cathy Wu, an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD candidate, is among 60 top female graduates in the fields of electrical and computer engineering and computer science chosen to participate in Carnegie Melon University’s Rising Stars workshop.
August 30, 2016
Summer 2016 Connected Corridor Newsletter
The Summer 2016 Connected Corridor Newsletter is out! Checkout CC in the Cloud, Requirements Planning Drawing to a Close; High-Level Design Starting, Improvements Abound for All Types of Travelers Around Gold Line, Q & A with Allen Z.
September 14, 2017
Rodriguez Joins ITS
The Institute of Transportation Studies is excited to welcome Chancellor’s Professor of City and Regional Planning Daniel A. Rodriguez to its ranks. His research focuses on the relationship between transportation, the built environment and land development.
September 14, 2017
Transportation Engineering Orientation
Join us in the ITS Library Monday Aug. 22 for the Transportation Engineering Orientation from 1 -3 p.m.
August 19, 2016
BRIDGE SF 2016 UC Berkeley Hackathon
The BRIDGE SF 2016 UC Berkeley Hackathon explores how Shared Automated Electric and Connected (SECA) vehicles will impact the way people and goods move within a city.
August 19, 2016
2016 Fall Transportation Seminar
Check out who we have on deck for the 2016 Fall Transportation Seminar. See the full schedule.
September 14, 2017
California PATH Rolls into Action at ITS America
California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology made a big impression at the June ITS America meeting in in San Jose, Calif. by bringing along three Class-8 truck tractors for Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control demonstration rides.
September 14, 2017
Driving Down GHG Emissions with Carsharing
In the first-ever North American one-way carsharing impact study, the Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC) reveals that car2go has a substantive impact on improving urban mobility and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
July 18, 2016
San Francisco Opens Superpublic Innovation Lab
Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director Susan Shaheen helped San Francisco open the Superpublic Innovation Lab, intended to create solutions for cities by harnessing academic, private-sector and government partnerships.
July 11, 2016
Smart infrastructure means monitoring for a lifetime
Our infrastructure faces significant challenges. Infrastructure in urban areas is affected by the need to increase load and usage, and the demand can change every decade.
July 11, 2016
Travel Behavior
The future of shared, connected, autonomous, clean, app-driven vehicles and services will transform how we move from place to place. Yet over the coming decades, this evolution could play out in heaven or hell scenarios─and anywhere in between. Joan Walker wants a say in where we end up.